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A superb resource for teachers!

From "Building a Wacky Hundreds Chart" to "Number Chart Bingo!," the twenty classroom-tested lessons and games in It Makes Sense: Using the Hundreds Chart to Build Number Sense transform the hundreds chart from a poster on the classroom wall into a hands-on, interactive tool used by both teachers and students.

The hundreds chart is one of the most important tools teachers can manipulate to help students think about our base ten number system and to build a mental model of the mathematical structure of it. Working with the hundreds chart helps learners develop the skills they need to become flexible and fluent problem solvers and meet the requirements of many state standards.

A wealth of teacher supports

The step-by-step lessons in this resource offer a wealth of teacher support, including:

• strategies for differentiating instruction
• assessment rubrics
• examples of student thinking
• tips for using interactive whiteboards
• teacher reflections
• reproducible hundreds chart, number puzzles, bingo cards, and more in a downloadable, printable format

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Reviews

"A superb resource for teachers! These lessons are rich, focused on the big ideas of mathematics, appropriate for young students, and conceptually based. Melissa and Stephanie have done a masterful job of describing what teaching for understanding really means."

—Juanita V. Copley, Professor Emerita, University of Houston

"In a primary math classroom, is there any other tool that is more important and appropriate than the hundreds chart? Your students will be building, navigating, investigating, and communicating their way to a stronger sense of number. I am not sure if you could find many first graders who wouldn’t love to build a wacky hundreds chart and then talk about it with their peers. What a fabulous resource for educators!"

—Beth Terry, math specialist, Alexandria City Public Schools and 2004 PAEMST Awardee