The students are picking up place value nicely, working with double digit numbers in order to differentiate between the ones and the tens place. Dimes were also introduced this week, as a way to demonstrate place value. Students were able to learn some new games to help instill these concepts, such as Dime/Penny Exchange, the Digit Game, and Guess my two Digit Number.
Students were also introduced to relation symbols, concentrating on the big three: Greater than, Less than, and Equal to. They practiced balancing equations to make them true, such as with __ < 42.