This year I've decided to use a
Number of the Day worksheet once a week to give students new ways to think about numbers and place value and provide opportunities for practice. My initial worksheet was based on some ideas I found in this
Place Value packet. This was working well for us, but I wasn't very happy with how it looked and I wanted to add more questions based on some of the other ideas we were covering in our lessons.
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Caterpillar Number of the Day |
So I fiddled with my ideas some more and came up this worksheet. I fiddled some more and was able to make an easier and harder variation so that it could be used with a greater spread of student needs.
I tested it out with my students and two-thirds of the class preferred this worksheet to the previous one. I really liked the pattern question and number sentence question (not in the previous worksheet) because they are open ended and led to great discussion.
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If you would like to
buy a copy of the package I put together, it is available at
my Teachers Pay Teachers store.
Resources provided include:
- Instructions for use
- Three worksheets of varying difficulty with samples
- A blank worksheet for you to write in your own questions
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