Friday, August 28, 2009

The Place Value song

We're reviewing place value in Room 8. Today, as we were reading large numbers, I asked how many remembered expanded notation, or expanded form. Most raised their hand. Here's an example of expanded notation:

5,293 = 5,000 + 200 + 90 + 3

After we had done it a few times, Kaylin told me she knew a song about it.

"A song about expanded notation?" I asked.

This seemed sort of a strange topic for a song...

Several Room 8ers then told me they learned it in 3rd grade... so we had a performance by Terra, Aleia, Kaylin, and Dallin:

I'm not sure if this will make the top 10 songs, but it works for learning place value!

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