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🧮 1st Grade · Math1.NBT.B.2Unit 6: Counting & place value to 120

Tens and ones

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🎯 Objective: Students show two-digit numbers with base-ten blocks and name the tens and ones.

Lesson outline

  1. Build 47 with rods and units.
  2. Write 47 = 4 tens 7 ones = 40 + 7.
  3. Build and record numbers from cards.
  4. Exit: draw 63 with quick tens and ones.

Lesson 3 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

1.NBT.B.2

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 1 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Count, read and write numbers to 120
  • Understand two-digit numbers as tens and ones

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

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More lessons in “Counting & place value to 120”

  1. Counting to 120
  2. Groups of ten
  3. Tens and ones
  4. Teen numbers and decade numbers
  5. Different ways to make a number

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