Codes: AC9M2N01, AC9M2N02. Goal: represent a three-digit quantity and exchange one hundred for ten tens without changing the total. Prepare: 2 hundred squares, 14 ten-strips, 6 singles, mat.
- Invite · 2. Build 246 and ask, “If I open one hundred bundle, is it still 246?” Invite prediction.
- Model · 5. Name
2H 4T 6O, then replace one H with ten T. Count1H 14T 6O = 100 + 140 + 6 = 246; leave both drawings visible. Say “the grouping changed; the number did not.” - Guided · 6. Build 324. Learners tell you to exchange one H. Together record
2H 12T 4O. Ask them to verify with200 + 120 + 4. - Choice · 6. Choose a D16 card. Child makes/sketches both groupings and says why they are equal. Partner tests by counting tens, not copying digits.
- Exit · 4. Ask for another grouping of 231 after opening one hundred; check
1H 13T 1O. If a child writes1H 3T 1O, put the missing ten strips back one by one. - Note · 2. Record independent exchange, prompted exchange or not yet observed.
Access/home/extension: Use folded paper bundles or sketches; partner manipulates on request. Home: 10 dots per strip on scrap paper. Extension: open both hundreds and explain 24T 6O for 246.