In this activity, students make sense of the relationships between the values of the same digit in different numbers, and write multiplication and division equations to represent these relationships.
As they complete and analyze the table, students recognize that the value of the digit in one row is ten times as much as the value of the digit in the row below. Students work to articulate these relationships precisely, using words and equations, and receive feedback from their peers on the equations they are writing. During the Activity Synthesis, students discuss why a multiplication or a division equation can be used to represent the same relationship.
When students express place value relationships with multiplication and division they observe structure in the place values (MP7). When they help one another improve their explanations, they critique each other's reasoning (MP3).
This activity uses MLR1 Stronger and Clearer Each Time. Advances: reading, writing.