The two digits of a two-digit number
Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones
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“If your child sees the number 47, can they tell you there are 4 tens (forty) and 7 ones — rather than just reading the digits as 'four seven'?”
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- Activity. Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones
What to notice. Explain that in 47, the 4 represents 4 tens (40) and the 7 represents 7 ones • Use base-ten blocks to show a two-digit number as tens and ones • Identify the tens digit and ones digit in any two-digit number
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If your child sees the number 47, can they tell you there are 4 tens (forty) and 7 ones — rather than just reading the digits as 'four seven'?
Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones
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- Explain that in 47, the 4 represents 4 tens (40) and the 7 represents 7 ones
- Use base-ten blocks to show a two-digit number as tens and ones
- Identify the tens digit and ones digit in any two-digit number
“If your child sees the number 47, can they tell you there are 4 tens (forty) and 7 ones — rather than just reading the digits as 'four seven'?”
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- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Number Representation & Place Value
- Age range
- Ages 6–7
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