Year 2

Place Value: Lolly Shop

Students learn that 10 of these are 1 of those, and they apply this knowledge to three-digit numbers.

'Place Value: Lolly Shop' is one of our new teaching sequences for V9

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Tasks in this sequence

Year 2

Task 1 • Packing lollies

Students learn that making groups helps us to keep track of the count and facilitates efficient counting strategies.

Task 1
Place Value: Lolly Shop
Year 2

Task 2 • Rolls and boxes

Students learn to group ones to make tens and group tens to make hundreds, and develop the idea of “10 of these is 1 of those”.

Task 2
Place Value: Lolly Shop
Year 2

Task 3 • Filling Boxes

Students play a simple game to build their understanding of “10 of these is 1 of those”.

Task 3
Place Value: Lolly Shop
Build
Students using counting bricks
Year 2

Task 4 • How many?

Students learn that numbers can be represented in different but equivalent ways.

Task 4
Place Value: Lolly Shop
Year 2

Task 5 • Different Ways

Students play a game building their understanding of different yet equivalent ways to represent a two-digit number.

Task 5
Place Value: Lolly Shop
Build
Students using counting bricks
Year 2

Task 6 • Counting lollies

Students learn to use ‘10 of these is 1 of those’ to make sense of place value patterns and different but equivalent representations.

Task 6
Place Value: Lolly Shop

Suggested implementation

This time plan is just one way that you might choose to implement this sequence. We have used a warm-up activity at the start of most lessons, and a number of tasks are split across two lessons. The timing provided in the tasks’ documentation align with this implementation advice.

 Week 1Week 2
Monday

Task 1 • Packing Lollies

  • Warm-up
  • Launch and Explore
  • Connect
  • Summarise

Task 4 • How many?

  • Warm-up 
  • Launch and Explore
Tuesday

Task 2 • Rolls and Boxes

  • Warm-up
  • Launch and Explore
  • Gallery walk

Task 4 • How many?

  • Warm-up 
  • Connect
  • Summarise
Wednesday

Task 2 • Rolls and Boxes

  • Warm-up
  • Connect
  • Summarise

Task 5 • Different Ways

  • Play the game Different Ways
Thursday

Task 3 • Filling Boxes

  • Warm-up
  • Play the game Filling Boxes

Task 6 • Counting lollies

  • Warm-up
  • Launch and Explore
  • Connect
  • Summarise
Friday

Task 3 • Filling Boxes

  • Warm-up
  • Play the game Filling Boxes

Task 6 • Counting lollies

  • Warm-up
  • Launch and Explore
  • Connect
  • Summarise

Curriculum and syllabus alignment

Achievement standards

In Year 2, students order and represent numbers to at least 1000, apply knowledge of place value to partition, rearrange and rename two- and three-digit numbers in terms of their parts, and regroup partitioned numbers to assist in calculations.

Australian Curriculum V9 alignment

Number