PLACE VALUE 15_INVESTIGATION and REFLECTION
(Year 2) ACMNA026, ACMNA027, ACMNA028 NSW MA1-4NA
Explain standard, non-standard place value, partition and order three-digit numbers.
GUIDED AND INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIONS and REFLECTION
These investigations allow children to investigate and explain the concept in new and varied situations, providing formative
assessment data for both the child and the teacher. ‘Doing’ mathematics is not enough and is not a good indicator of
understanding.
Children investigate and explain independently over many lessons at just beyond their current level of understanding, informing
both themselves and the teacher of their current level of understanding. It is during independent investigation that deep understanding and
metalanguage develops.
As they investigate, allow children to experience confusion (problematic knowledge) and to make mistakes to develop
resilience and deep understanding, If children knew what it was they were doing, it wouldn’t be called learning!
GUIDE children through the INVESTIGATION process until they are ready to investigate INDEPENDENTly.
Children DISCUSS then RECORD their response to the REFLECTION question.
These investigations and reflections are directly linked to Explicit Teaching, and also appear on the Explicit Teaching Plan. Instructions for students
appear on this PDF, on the corresponding Video and on the Explicit Teaching PowerPoint.
Teaching Segment and Video 1:
Small 10 frame 100.
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In pairs, children have a 100 small 10 frame, for example,
They record a place value chart with ones, tens and hundreds. They describe 100 as 1 hundred and identify
it on the place value chart. They describe 100 as 10 tens and identify it on the place value chart. They
describe 100 as 100 ones and identify it on the place value chart. Reflection: How can we see 100 as 1
hundred and as 10 tens and as 100 ones?
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Teaching Segment and Video 2:
Three-digit small 10 frames
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In groups, children make a three-digit number with cards. Children make the
number using small 10 frames. Children record a place value chart and record
their number. Children describe their number using standard and non-standard
place value. Reflection: How can we describe three-digit numbers using place
value?
Teaching Segment and Video 3:
Three-digit
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In groups, children make a three-digit number with cards. Children record a
place value chart and record their number. Children describe their number
using standard and non-standard place value. Reflection: How can we describe
three-digit numbers using place value?
Teaching Segment and Video 4:
Partition using standard, nonstandard and non-place value
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In pairs, children select cards to make a three-digit number. They partition their three-digit number using nonplace value, standard and non-standard place value without blocks. Reflection: How can we partition three-digit
numbers using standard, non-standard and non-place value?
Teaching Segment and Video 5:
Numbers 1 before and after
three-digit numbers
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In pairs, children select cards to make a three-digit number. They record the number on an open empty number
line. They record the number before and after on the number line. Reflection: How can we use place value to order
numbers?
Teaching Segment and Video 5:
Numbers 10 before and after
three-digit numbers
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In pairs, children select cards to make a three-digit number. They record the number on an open empty number
line. They record the number 10 before and after on the number line. Reflection: How can we use place value to
order numbers?
Teaching Segment and Video 5:
Ordering three-digit numbers
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In pairs, children select cards to make three-digit numbers. They place their numbers in order on an open empty
number line. They record numbers that come between their numbers. Reflection: How can we use place value to
order numbers?
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More investigations
These investigations are not directly linked to Explicit Teaching. Instructions for students appear here and on the Explicit Teaching PowerPoint.
Place value game.
 In pairs, children take turns to take a card and place it in either the ones place or the tens place or the hundreds
place. Once placed it cannot be changed. Children read their number out loud and explain their number using
standard place value. They each place their number on the same number line, explaining their placements. The child
who creates the highest / lowest number takes all cards.
Target number.
 In pairs, three cards are selected to be a target number. Each child flips 3 cards to make a three-digit number. The
child who makes a number closest to the target number wins.
‘Wipe out’ using a calculator.
 In pairs, children have a calculator. One child enters a three-digit number. The other child ‘wipes out’ the hundreds,
tens or ones digit by subtracting the number of hundreds, tens or ones.
Ascending or descending order.
 In pairs, each child is dealt 12 cards to make 4 three-digit numbers and place them in a row. The remaining cards are
placed face down in a pile. In turns, children select 3 cards from the pile and make a three-digit number to replace
one of their three-digit numbers. The child player to have their four three-digit numbers in ascending (or
descending) order is the winner.
Higher or lower.
 Children play ‘guess my three-digit number’. One child records and hides a three-digit number. As the other children
guess the child tells them whether the number is higher or lower.
Select 3 cards and create
various sized numbers.
Hundred chart jigsaw.
 In pairs, children select 3 cards. They make the largest possible three-digit number, the second largest possible
three-digit number, the third largest possible three-digit number, the smallest possible three-digit number, the
second smallest possible three-digit number, the third smallest possible three-digit number, …
 In pairs, children select a page from a hundred chart. Children cut up a hundred chart in a specified hundred into
rows or columns or into random pieces. They use their understanding of three-digit numbers to put it back
together.
As they develop their understanding of three-digit place value, children will apply their understanding to add and subtract two-digit
numbers bridging 100 using place value (Addition and Subtraction 7).
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PROBLEM SOLVING directly linked to explicit teaching, investigations and reflections
Problems allow children to investigate concepts in new and varied situations. Any problem worth solving takes time and effort
– that’s why they’re called problems!
Problems are designed to develop and use higher order thinking. Allowing children to grapple with problems, providing minimal
support by asking strategic questions, is key. Differentiating problems allows children to solve simpler problems, before solving
more complex problems on a concept.
Problems may not always be solved the first time they are presented – or at all. The focus of problem solving is the development
of problem solving understanding and capacity – not mastery! Returning to a problem after further learning, develops both
resilience and increased confidence as children take the necessary time and input the necessary effort.
After solving problems, children also create their own problems.
Create 3 levels of a problem. GUIDE children through the first level using the problem solving steps. Allow children to investigate the second level
with friends, with minimal guidance. Allow children to investigate the third level INDEPENDENTly. Children create their own problem.
These problems are directly linked to Explicit Teaching, are embedded in the Explicit Teaching Plan, and appear on the Explicit Teaching PowerPoint.
These, and more problems, appear as blackline masters on the Problem Solving PDF and are differentiated on the Problem Solving PowerPoint.
Teaching Segment and Video 1:
100 is 1 hundred and 10 tens and
100 ones
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Fred had a packet of 100 lollies. Lenny had 10 packets of 10 lollies. Gina had 100 individual lollies. Did they have
the same number of lollies? (yes, 100 is 1 hundred and 10 tens and 100 ones)
Teaching Segment and Video 2:
Three-digit with 10 frames
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Jon collected 15 bags of 10 marbles. How many more marbles does he need to have 156 marbles? (6)
How do you know? (156 is 15 tens and 6 ones)
Teaching Segment and Video 3:
Three-digit no 10 frames
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Jon collected 62 bags of 10 marbles. How many more marbles does he need to have 638 marbles? (18)
How do you know? (638 is 62 tens and 18 ones)
Teaching Segment and Video 4:
Partition
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Jan partitioned 324 blocks into parts. What might the parts look like? (Any partitions, for example, 320 + 4, 310 + 14,
300 + 20 + 4, 323 + 1, 240 + 84. Children find about 5 demonstrating standard, non-standard and non-place value partitions.)
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A sugar cane train has 214 carriages. The train driver partitions the train into 2 parts. How many carriages could
be in each part? (Any partitions, for example, 200 + 10 + 4, 210 + 4, 180 + 34, 183 + 31, 213 + 1. Children find about 5
demonstrating standard, non-standard and non-place value partitions.)
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Teaching Segment and Video 5:
Ordering
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There are 324 fruit bats in these two tress. How many fruit bats might be in each tree? (Any partitions, for example,
300 + 20 +4, 320 + 4, 310 + 14, 280 + 44, 283 + 41, 323 + 1. Children find about 5 demonstrating standard, non-standard
and non-place value partitions.)
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There are three apple trees, with 325 apples altogether. How many apples might be in each tree? (Any partitions,
for example, 300 + 20 + 5, 320 + 5, 310 + 15, 280 + 45, 283 + 42, 324 + 1. Children find about 5 demonstrating standard,
non-standard and non-place value partitions.)
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I have 324 marbles in three bags. How many marbles might be in each bag? (Any partitions, for example, 300 + 20
+4, 320 + 4, 310 + 14, 280 + 44, 283 + 41, 323 + 1. Children find about 5 demonstrating standard, non-standard and non-place
value partitions.)
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What number could be in the blank space on this number line? (around 150)
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136
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172
Where would 143 go on this number line? (a)
136
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small 10 frames (3 pages) (back)
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Investigating Place Value of Three-digit Numbers
PLACE VALUE 15 Explain standard, non-standard place value, partition and order three-digit numbers.
Sit with a friend.
Have a 100 small 10 frame, for example,
Record a place value chart with ones, tens and hundreds.
How many hundreds do you see?
How many tens do you see?
How many ones do you see?
Reflection: How can we see 100 as 1 hundred and as 10 tens and as 100 ones?
Problem Solving
Fred had a packet of 100 lollies. Lenny had 10 packets of
10 lollies. Gina had 100 individual lollies.
Did they have the same number of lollies?
Hint: Change lollies to strawberries/marbles/pencils etc, and allow children to solve again!
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Investigating Place Value of Three-digit Numbers
PLACE VALUE 15 Explain standard, non-standard place value of three-digit numbers grouping in hundreds, tens and ones.
Make a three-digit number with cards.
Make the three-digit number with small 10 frames.
Record the number in a place value chart
Describe your number using standard place value.
Describe your number using non-standard place value
in up to 4 ways.
Reflection: How can we describe three-digit numbers using place value?
Problem Solving
Jon collected 15 bags of 10 marbles.
How many more marbles does he need to have 156 marbles?
How do you know?
Hint: Change the number of bags of 10 marbles, and allow children to solve again!
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Investigating Place Value of Three-digit Numbers
PLACE VALUE 15 Explain standard, non-standard place value of three-digit numbers grouping in hundreds, tens and ones.
Make a three-digit number with cards.
Record the number in a place value chart
Describe your number using standard place value.
Describe your number using non-standard place value
in up to 4 ways.
Reflection: How can we describe three-digit numbers using place value?
Problem Solving
Jon collected 62 bags of 10 marbles.
How many more marbles does he need to have 636 marbles?
How do you know?
Hint: Change the number of bags of 10 marbles and the total number of marbles, and allow children to solve again!
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Investigating Place Value of Three-digit Numbers
PLACE VALUE 15 Explain standard, non-standard place value of three-digit numbers grouping in hundreds, tens and ones.
Select cards to make a three-digit number.
Partition your number, using non-place value, standard and non-standard place
value.
Reflection: How can we partition three-digit numbers using standard, non-standard
and non-place value?
Problem Solving
Jan partitioned 324 blocks into parts.
What might the parts look like?
Hint: Change the three-digit number, and allow children to solve again!
Problem Solving
A sugar cane train has 214 carriages. The train driver partitions the train into 2 parts.
How many carriages could be in each part?
Hint: Change the three-digit number of carriages, and allow children to solve again!
Problem Solving
There are 324 fruit bats in these two tress.
How many fruit bats might be in each tree?
Hint: Change the three-digit number of fruit bats, and allow children to solve again!
Problem Solving
There are three apple trees, with 325 apples altogether.
How many apples might be in each tree?
Hint: Change the three-digit number of apples, and allow children to solve again!
Problem Solving
I have 324 marbles in three bags.
How many marbles might be in each bag?
Hint: Change the three-digit number of marbles, and allow children to solve again!
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Investigating Place Value of Three-digit Numbers
PLACE VALUE 15 Explain standard, non-standard place value of three-digit numbers grouping in hundreds, tens and ones.
Select cards to make a three-digit number.
Record the number on an open empty number line.
Record the number before and after on the number line.
Reflection: How can we use place value to order numbers?
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Investigating Place Value of Three-digit Numbers
PLACE VALUE 15 Explain standard, non-standard place value of three-digit numbers grouping in hundreds, tens and ones.
Select cards to make a three-digit number.
Record the number on an open empty number line.
Record the number 10 before and 10 after on the number line.
Reflection: How can we use place value to order numbers?
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Investigating Place Value of Three-digit Numbers
PLACE VALUE 15 Explain standard, non-standard place value of three-digit numbers grouping in hundreds, tens and ones.
Select cards to make three-digit numbers.
Record the numbers in order on an open empty number line.
Record numbers that come between your numbers.
Reflection: How can we use place value to order numbers?
Problem Solving
What number could be in the blank space on this number line?
Hint: Change the numbers on the number line, and allow children to solve again!
Problem Solving
Where would 43 go on this number line?
Hint: Change the numbers on the number line, and allow children to solve again!
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Investigating Place Value of Three-digit Numbers
PLACE VALUE 15 Explain standard, non-standard place value of three-digit numbers grouping in hundreds, tens and ones.
Sit with a friend.
Each of you record a place value chart with ones, tens and hundreds.
Take turns to take 1 card and place it in either the ones place or the tens place or
the hundreds place.
Once placed it cannot be changed.
Read your number out loud and explain your number using standard place value as
you place out each card.
Each of you place your complete three-digit number on the same number line,
explaining your placements.
The child who created the highest / lowest number takes all cards.
Reflection: How did you use place value to decide what value to give each digit?
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Investigating Place Value of Three-digit Numbers
PLACE VALUE 15 Explain standard, non-standard place value of three-digit numbers grouping in hundreds, tens and ones.
Sit with a friend.
Select 3 cards to make a three-digit target number.
Each person flips 3 cards.
The child who makes the number closest to the target number wins.
Reflection: How did you use place value to arrange your cards to make the number
closest to the target number?
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Investigating Place Value of Three-digit Numbers
PLACE VALUE 15 Explain standard, non-standard place value of three-digit numbers grouping in hundreds, tens and ones.
Enter a three-digit number into a calculator.
Wipe out the tens digit.
Enter a three-digit number into a calculator.
Wipe out the hundreds digit.
Enter a three-digit number into a calculator.
Wipe out the ones digit.
Reflection: How did you use place value to wipe out each digit?
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Investigating Place Value of Three-digit Numbers
PLACE VALUE 15 Explain standard, non-standard place value of three-digit numbers grouping in hundreds, tens and ones.
Sit with a friend.
Flip 12 cards to make 4 three-digit numbers.
Place the numbers in a row.
Place the remaining cards face down in a pile.
Take turns to select 3 cards from the pile.
Make a three-digit number to replace one of your three-digit numbers.
The child player to have their four three-digit numbers in ascending (or descending)
order is the winner.
Reflection: How did you use place value to place your numbers in order?
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Investigating Place Value of Three-digit Numbers
PLACE VALUE 15 Explain standard, non-standard place value of three-digit numbers grouping in hundreds, tens and ones.
Sit with friends.
Play ‘guess my three-digit number’.
One of you records and hides a three-digit number.
As the other children guess, tell them whether your number is higher or lower.
Reflection: How did you use place value to guess the number?
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Investigating Place Value of Three-digit Numbers
PLACE VALUE 15 Explain standard, non-standard place value of three-digit numbers grouping in hundreds, tens and ones.
Select 3 cards.
Make the largest possible three-digit number.
Make the second largest possible three-digit number.
Make the third largest possible three-digit number.
Make the smallest possible three-digit number.
Make the second smallest possible three-digit number.
Make the third smallest possible three-digit number.
Reflection: How did you use place value to make the numbers?
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Investigating Place Value of Three-digit Numbers
PLACE VALUE 15 Explain standard, non-standard place value of three-digit numbers grouping in hundreds, tens and ones.
Select a page from a hundred chart.
Cut up the hundred chart page into rows or columns or into random pieces.
Use your understanding of three-digit numbers to put it back together.
Reflection: How did you use place value to put the hundred chart together?
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