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Student Instructions
1. Read the recap and vocabulary pages. 2. Complete the matching page to check your place-value knowledge. 3. Do the multiple-choice and short-answer problems to show what you know. 4. Try the open exploration and multimedia task to explain your thinking. 5. Finish with the real-world connection, discussion, and a quick self-check poll.
Teacher Notes (not visible to students)
This activity sequence teaches 5th graders how to read, compare, round, estimate, and do basic operations with whole numbers up to the millions. Use the pages in order: start with the recap and vocabulary, then the matching and assessment pages. Offer whiteboards or paper for students to show work. For partner work, have students explain their reasoning aloud and trade answers to check understanding. For each open-ended question, high-quality answers will: 1) clearly show or describe place-value reasoning (identify which place is being used and why), 2) include a correct numeric solution or a correct estimate with units, and 3) explain steps or strategies (e.g., number line reasoning, decomposing numbers, or rounding rules). Short responses that list steps without justification are incomplete. For multimedia and drawing tasks, expect students to label place values or point to where rounding happens; grading can be correct/incorrect based on whether they justify and reach a reasonable answer.
