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Task 5
Place Value: Lolly Shop

Task 5 • Different Ways

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

Place Value: Lolly Shop

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Numbers can be represented using standard base-ten groupings and non-standard groupings. These different representations of the same number are equivalent in value.

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Different Ways

Show students how to play Different Ways in pairs:

  1. Students take turns rolling two dice. One die represents the number of rolls in their collection and one die represents the number of loose lollies in their collection (students can pick which is which each turn). The student uses cubes to represent the total number of lollies.
  2. Both students record the total number of lollies on Different Ways Student sheet.
  3. The other student uses cubes to represent the same number in a different way.
  4. If both students agree that the two representations look different but are equal in value, they both record the two different representations and the total number of lollies on their student sheet.

Estimated time
50 minutes
Task type
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