Great Minds Think Alike

Before Christmas Break...Wow! That seems so long ago and yet Spring Break is right around the corner already. Okay, let's start this again...

Before Christmas Break our class was learning about place value and base ten form. To introduce the unit I decided to challenge them, in their small groups, to figure out how many hundreds make 1,000. Each table group was given ten blank hundreds charts and simply told to create 1,000 X's. Here's a look at what happened next:

 I love how this picture shows how well they all worked as a team!

It was so much fun to watch how every group had come up with a different strategy for creating 1,000 X's. One group kept passing a hundred chart around their table with each student marking an X and then passing the chart on to the next student, while another group divided the ten hundreds charts evenly to each student. One group thought it was impossible because...

"Mrs. Wright, ten hundreds charts make ten hundred. We CAN'T make 1,000. 

We can only make ten hundred."

It took some groups a little longer than others, but the outcome was genius! 

Ten hundreds make 1,000!