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Using A Hundreds Chart:: Indicator of Progress

The document provides strategies for teaching students to use a hundreds chart to build number sense and mental math skills. It describes 4 activities: 1) having students guess a mystery number based on clues, 2) identifying number neighbors above, below, and to the sides of a given number, 3) completing hundreds charts with some numbers missing, and 4) more open-ended challenges like determining other possible numbers covered by jigsaw pieces showing part of a number. The overall goal is for students to visualize patterns in the hundreds chart to improve mental calculation abilities.

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Using A Hundreds Chart:: Indicator of Progress

The document provides strategies for teaching students to use a hundreds chart to build number sense and mental math skills. It describes 4 activities: 1) having students guess a mystery number based on clues, 2) identifying number neighbors above, below, and to the sides of a given number, 3) completing hundreds charts with some numbers missing, and 4) more open-ended challenges like determining other possible numbers covered by jigsaw pieces showing part of a number. The overall goal is for students to visualize patterns in the hundreds chart to improve mental calculation abilities.

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Using a Hundreds Chart:

Indicator of progress
Students can use the hundreds chart to find relationships between numbers. For example, 42 is the
number 10 more than 32, and so 42 is directly below 32 on the hundreds chart. Likewise the number
33 is next to 32, and it is 1 more than 32.

Teaching strategies
The main focus is to assist students to visualise the patterns in the hundreds chart, which will improve
their ability to calculate mentally. While initially students may need to see a chart, ultimately they will
visualise the patterns and solve problems without reference to the chart.

Activity 1: Guess my number focuses attention on the positions of digits on the chart.

Activity 2: Number neighbours looks at numbers above and below, right and left, of a chosen number.

Activity 3: Missing numbers and

Activity 4: Challenges lead towards visualising the chart and mental strategies.

Activity 1: Guess my number


Pose this task I am thinking of a two digit number. One of my digits is 6. What number might I be
thinking of?

There are many possible numbers. Encourage the students to find multiple answers. Discuss how
some students think of numbers with a 6 in the ones place, and others might find numbers with a 6 in
the tens place.

Activity 2: Number neighbours

One aspect of place value is visualising the patterns that connect a particular number to its
neighbours. A range of activities can involve hundreds charts. There are several different charts
below. Note that the first chart has been extended to include the numbers up to 120, and that the
second chart is a 0-99 chart. It is important that students are exposed to different formats of the
hundreds chart in order to highlight different patterns. A portion of the next chart (100-199) is also
provided. The pattern then extends, so that all numbers with 4 in the hundreds place are in the same
chart (400-499).
Activity 3: Missing numbers

Once students can put a complete chart together, prepare a chart with some numbers missing. Cut
the chart into 'jigsaw' pieces. You could use jigsaw pieces with only one number showing for the
students to complete the missing numbers. For example what numbers are missing in the boxes
shown? Always, students should describe how they obtain answers in terms of adding or subtracting
10 (moving vertically) or 1 (moving horizontally).

Activity 4: Challenges

Once students are confident completing the chart with one given number on each jigsaw piece you
can ask more open-ended questions.

For example:
The number 43 is covered by pieces like these shown below. What other numbers might be covered?

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