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place value--boxtops
By Faith
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A really neat way my students have learned place value is with the collection of Big G boxtops. Students bring in boxtops, and when there are 10, we put in a snack-size baggie (labelled "10.) When we've gotten 100, we put them in sandwich-sized baggies labelled "100". We frequently go over these, and ask questions such as, "If we had 10 more, how many would we have?" "We have 9 ones, and now we have 3 more. What do we do?" This is very versatile, and our staff collector has been very kind about us accumulating these until we have enough to make it a learning experience for us.
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once we collected tabs for McDonald house. Use pins for ones, twist ties for 10, sandwich bags for 100, etc. Students got so many that we had 10,000, which we put on a desk below the bulletin board in a clear storage box. It got a little much with counting, but we had a cause. Faith
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