Math for Lifelong Learning Grade 4
Chapter 1: Understanding Counting Numbers Through Hundred Thousands
Lesson 1: Place Value
Motivation
Motivation
- Encourage the pupils to go to the library and read newspapers about business or economics. Instruct them to copy in their notebook some short reports in which three- to five-digit numbers are involved.
- Encourage them to share their stories. Ask the pupils to write the numbers they see from the short reports on a piece of bond paper.
Discussion
- Instruct the pupils to bring out the pieces of paper on which they wrote numbers from news reports related to economics or business, as they did on Motivation. Call on volunteer pupils and ask them to read their numbers aloud one by one.
- Draw a place value chart on the board. Ask the pupils will to look at this chart. As each volunteer pupil reads the numbers he/she wrote, write each number he/she announces on the place value chart. Instruct the other pupils to observe and analyze how to write the numbers in standard and expanded forms of whole numbers.
- Ask the pupils the following questions:
- What can you say about a digit in a given number?
- What is the use of a place value chart?
- How are the numbers groups in a period?
- What do you call the first group on the rightmost period on the next, moving to the left?
- Ask some volunteer pupils to name more of the numbers they wrote. Use these numbers in teaching or clarifying how to read and write numbers. Afterwards, ask them to answer the items under On the Road to Learning on pages 6 and 7 of the worktext to confirm their learning.
- Together with a group, pupils will be asked to answer more questions involving place values. This will help the pupils to correct their mistakes right away.
Culmination and Synthesis
- Let the pupils form a group of six members each to perform the activity "A Challenging Game" under Living with Math on pages 7 and 8 of the worktext.
- Let the pupils generalize the concepts they learned in the lesson using the synthesis sundae below. Allow the pupils to fill in the spaces in the image below by answering each question that follows or doing what is asked.
A. What did you learn from this lesson?
B. How can you use this lesson in your everyday life situation?
C. From a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being the highest and 1 being the lowest, how will you rate your understanding of this lesson?
D. Write down your questions. If you have none, draw a smiley face.
B. How can you use this lesson in your everyday life situation?
C. From a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being the highest and 1 being the lowest, how will you rate your understanding of this lesson?
D. Write down your questions. If you have none, draw a smiley face.
3. Let the pupils answer the questions under Understanding How I Learned on page 10 of the worktext to further validate their learning.
4. Ask for volunteers to write the important words they have learned in the lesson on the board. Then have the pupils write these important words in the blanks under Creating My Math Word Corner on page 8 of the worktext.
Assessment
- Let the pupils answer the items under Accomplishing the Standard on page 9 of the worktext to assess how much they learned the lesson.
- Instruct the pupils to answer the items under Extending Beyond the Standard on pages 9 and 10 of the worktext.