standard_description: Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones. Understand the following as special cases:
- 100 can be thought of as a bundle of ten tens — called a “hundred.”
- The numbers 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine hundreds (and 0 tens and 0 ones).
problem_activity: Narrative
The purpose of this activity is for students to choose from activities that focus on adding and subtracting or sorting and representing data.
Students choose from any stage of previously introduced centers.
What's Behind My Back?
How Close?
Number Puzzles
Sort and Display
Required Materials
Materials to Gather
Materials from previous centers
Required Preparation
Gather materials from:
What's Behind My Back, Stages 2 and 3
How Close, Stages
1–
3
Number Puzzles, Stages 1 and 2
Sort and Display, Stage 2
Launch
“Today you will choose from centers we have already learned.”
Display the center choices in the student book.
“Think about what you would like to do first.”
30 seconds: quiet think time
Activity
Invite students to work at the center of their choice.
10 minutes: center work time
"Choose what you would like to do next."
10 minutes: center work time
Student Facing
Choose a center.
What's Behind My Back?
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How Close?
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Number Puzzles
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Sort and Display
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Activity Synthesis
“Which activity did you choose? What did you like about the activity you chose?”


aligns: no