Lesson Plan on Understanding Place Values: Third Grade Math
Lesson Title:”Understanding Place Values: Third Grade Math”
Lesson Objective: Students will be able to understand and identify place values of whole numbers up to 1,000.
Materials:
Introduction (10 minutes): Start the lesson by reviewing the concept of place value. Write the number “543” on the whiteboard and ask students to identify the place value of each digit. Next, use base-10 blocks to demonstrate the place value of each digit in the number.
Direct Instruction (20 minutes): Introduce the place value chart and have students work in pairs to fill in the chart with whole numbers up to 1,000. As they work, circulate the room to provide assistance and check for understanding. Next, have students work independently to complete a worksheet that practices identifying place values. This will serve as a formative assessment of their understanding of the concept.
Guided Practice (20 minutes): Divide the class into small groups and provide each group with a set of whole numbers. Have them work together to identify the place value of each digit. As they work, circulate the room to provide assistance and check for understanding.
Independent Practice (20 minutes): Provide students with a worksheet to complete independently. This worksheet should include a variety of place value identification tasks.
Closure (10 minutes): As a class, review the concepts covered in the lesson and have students share any strategies they found helpful when identifying place values. Next, create a class chart listing the strategies discussed.
Assessment: Formative assessment will be used throughout the lesson to check for understanding, including the worksheets completed during direct instruction and guided practice. A summative assessment will be given at the end of the unit to assess student mastery of the concept.
Note: It is important to emphasize that the place value of a digit depends on its position in the number. The digit in the ones place has a place value of 1, the digit in the tens place has a place value of 10 and the digit in the hundreds place has a place value of 100. Also, it is important to relate this concept with the base 10 system and how digits represent different values based on their position.
