These are short ways to show your current thinking, not a race or a whole-year grade. Your teacher will give you Check 1 after Day 15 and Check 2 after Day 20. You can show a model, drawing, chart location, numeral, spoken/sign/AAC explanation or a combination. Tell the teacher if someone moved the pieces for you or gave a mathematical hint.
Check 1 · after Day 15
- Make a model for 57. Show the numeral and say or show the full tens and loose ones.
- A fictional picture has six groups of ten card icons and three extra icons. What numeral names the total? Point to its place on the chart.
- Put 69, 58, 60 in order from least to greatest. Show one reason using strips, chart positions or words.
- Show five tens and ten ones. Trade the ten ones for a strip. What is the new model and numeral? Did the amount change?
Pause before feedback. Your teacher will save your first model and explanation, then help you check. A different practice example comes later if you need one.
Check 2 · after Day 20
- Make a model for 76 and show its numeral. Explain what the 7 and 6 stand for.
- A fictional poster has eight rows of ten shape icons and three extra icons. How many icons are drawn? Show it without counting every icon from one.
- Put 89, 81, 90 in order from least to greatest. Explain one comparison.
- Show eight tens and ten ones before and after an exchange. Write or select the numeral and say what stayed equal.
Optional personal reflection: “I checked my answer by ___.” You can point to your model instead of writing a sentence. Your teacher will choose the next number task from your evidence.
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