Mrs. Koehn had a problem today. She needed exactly 1,000 straws for the math lesson, but she forgot to count them out ahead of time! The BUGS volunteered to help her get them counted so they could get on with the math lesson. With so many helpers, it was quickly decided that it would be faster if they bundled the straws into groups of ten and then counted from there.
The kids really synergized as they had some counting and some bundling! Once all the straws were in bundles of ten, the BUGS quickly realized that when we counted by tens to a thousand we got off count and had to keep starting over! It was so frustrating and was taking forever!!
It was finally suggested that we take the bundles of ten and bundle them into hundreds!! We counted out ten tens and put them into a bundle of one hundred straws! When we finished, it was so easy to count up the hundreds and see that we had 1,000 in our bundles and six straws left over!! (It was super cool to realized that we bundled ten ones to make a ten, ten tens to make a hundred and ten hundreds to make the thousand!!)
What was not so cool was realizing we had been bamboozled by Mrs. Koehn!! She didn't "forget" to count the straws this morning! She just wanted us to have some hands-on learning with counting by ones, tens and hundreds all the way to one thousand!! That sneaky Mrs. Koehn...
The kids really synergized as they had some counting and some bundling! Once all the straws were in bundles of ten, the BUGS quickly realized that when we counted by tens to a thousand we got off count and had to keep starting over! It was so frustrating and was taking forever!!
It was finally suggested that we take the bundles of ten and bundle them into hundreds!! We counted out ten tens and put them into a bundle of one hundred straws! When we finished, it was so easy to count up the hundreds and see that we had 1,000 in our bundles and six straws left over!! (It was super cool to realized that we bundled ten ones to make a ten, ten tens to make a hundred and ten hundreds to make the thousand!!)
What was not so cool was realizing we had been bamboozled by Mrs. Koehn!! She didn't "forget" to count the straws this morning! She just wanted us to have some hands-on learning with counting by ones, tens and hundreds all the way to one thousand!! That sneaky Mrs. Koehn...
I think that it's a really fun way to learn how many one hundreds are in one thousand. Mrs. Koehn is a really good teacher!
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