Line 'Em Up

I had to capture our place value chant on video this afternoon. When we first started our unit on expanded, standard, and written form, my class had a difficult time converting expanded form to standard form. So I told my students to line up their place values - ones with ones, tens with tens, and so on. And this chant was born when I kept telling them to "line them up."  The song also helps with all addition, subtraction, and multiplication problems. 

In this particular video, we were converting 800+3,000+40+9 to standard form during calendar math. Some students thought that we had to put 3,000 first, and then the song reminder came! In addition, it doesn't matter what's on top or bottom as long as you line up the place values! For subtraction at this point, larger numbers go on top, but place values always align. 

Enjoy this great video! And this chant really helps!

Cheers,

Ms. Butts