Unit 3, Lesson 3
Add Your Way
Grade 3
Preparation
Lesson Purpose
The purpose of this lesson is for students to use strategies to add within 1,000.
Lesson Narrative
In this lesson, students review a variety of strategies used to add within 1,000, with an emphasis on adding hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, and ones and ones. Students should have access to base-ten blocks.
- Engagement
- MLR6
- Compare and contrast (orally) addition strategies based on place value.
- Explain (orally) strategies for adding within 1,000.
- Let’s add numbers within 1,000.
Required Materials
Activity 1
Required Preparation
None
Teacher Reflection Questions
What strategies are students most comfortable using to add within 1,000? How will you leverage that student understanding in upcoming lessons on addition algorithms?
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