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Can you find place-value patterns in large numbers?

Goal:

Goal:

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Think About It!

Goal: Identify place-value patterns.

Here are the minutes Alvin played.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
10 5 5 5 5

How many minutes did Alvin play in all? Let’s use a hundreds chart to find out!

Hundreds chart with the number: 10 being highlighted.

Alvin practiced 10 minutes on Monday

Hundreds chart with the numbers: 10 and 15 being highlighted.

He practiced 5 minutes on Tuesday.

Hundreds chart with the numbers: 10, 15, and 20 being highlighted.

He practiced 5 minutes on Wednesday.

Hundreds chart with the numbers: 10, 15, 20, and 25 being highlighted.

He practiced 5 minutes on Thursday.

Hundreds chart with the numbers: 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 being highlighted.

He practiced 5 minutes on Friday.

Which number sequence shows Alvin’s minutes? A number sequence is a list of numbers in order.

Do you see a pattern?

The patterns in numbers help us create number sequences. You just found patterns by using a hundreds chart. You also looked at the digits in the ones and tens places.


Click the hundreds chart to show these numbers: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70
71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90
91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100
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Great job!

Do you see a pattern?