NY Next Generation Math NY-2.NBT.1
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Understand that the digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones.
New York State Next Generation Mathematics Learning Standards
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What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect each digit in a three-digit numeral to its place and value. They represent the numeral as groups of hundreds, tens, and ones.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student explains that 362 contains 3 hundreds, 6 tens, and 2 ones. For 407, the student recognizes that the zero records no tens and does not change the values of the other digits.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may name each digit without giving its value, saying the 3 in 362 means 3 rather than 300. They may ignore zero as a placeholder or reverse the tens and ones places.
How to Assess It
- Ask the student to build 508 with base-ten blocks, write the numeral, and explain the value represented by each digit, including the zero.
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Ways to Teach It
Build three-digit numbers with base-ten blocks, then match each model to numeral, expanded-value, and place-value cards.
Ask students how the value of the digit 4 changes in 245, 426, and 604.
Play place-value swap by drawing three digit cards, arranging a numeral, and scoring the value of a named digit.
Read three-digit room capacities or attendance totals and describe how many hundreds, tens, and ones each numeral represents.
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Related Standards
- NY-1.NBT.2
Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones.
- NY-3.NBT.4.a
Understand that the digits of a four-digit number represent amounts of thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones.
- NY-2.NBT.7.b
Understand that in adding or subtracting up to three-digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones, and sometimes it ...
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