Jungle land
This is a level 2 number link activity from the Figure It Out series. It is focused on using place value knowledge to add and adding and subtracting hundreds and tens numbers to 1000. A PDF of the student activity is included.
About this resource
Figure It Out is a series of 80 books published between 1999 and 2009 to support teaching and learning in New Zealand classrooms.
This resource provides the teachers' notes and answers for one activity from the Figure It Out series. A printable PDF of the student activity can be downloaded from the materials that come with this resource.
Specific learning outcomes:
- Use place value knowledge to add.
- Add and subtraction hundreds and tens numbers to 1000.
Jungle land
Achievement objectives
NA2-1: Use simple additive strategies with whole numbers and fractions.
Required materials
- Figure It Out, Link, Number, Book One, "Jungle land", page 7
See Materials that come with this resource to download:
- Jungle land activity (.pdf)
Activity
This activity continues the focus on the base 10 nature of our number system by encouraging students to extend their addition combinations to those that make 1 000. This is a useful extension to their earlier facts that add up to 10 and 100. These facts will enable them to use regrouping strategies when adding or subtracting three-digit numbers.
After the students have explored the impact on ticket points of various activities, question 4b asks them to select just one activity for each child to use up all the points they have left. The students’ answers, of course, will depend on whether they have correctly calculated the answers to the previous questions.
Question 5 could easily be discussed in pairs or groups. As an extension, you could challenge your students to plan a programme that uses two tickets. They could also explore the effect of a 20 percent increase in points on all activities to find out how many activities could be done with one ticket and whether the children could still use up the exact number of points on their tickets.
1.
600
2.
400
3.
a. 300
b. 700
4.
a. Stephanie: 300; Jamie: 100; Tristan: 400
b. Stephanie: waterfall, swimming hole, or Up the Creek; Jamie: minigolf; Tristan: 4WD Safari
5.
Answers will vary.
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