First grade students in Mr. Todd Shuster’s class at Roslyn Elementary School are learning and understanding “place value” to the 10s place, 100s place and even 1000s place. The students are learning how to compare numbers to determine which is larger. The number scroll is a method for practicing numbers and recognizing patterns. The students completed charts that have been taped together to create a long scroll of numbers.
Each student begins with a hundreds chart that is a grid of 100 squares. The standard chart contains 10 rows with 10 squares in each row. The layout helps first graders easily identify patterns in numbers. For example, the digit in the ones place is the same down each column. The first column from top to bottom is: 1, 11, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61, 71, 81 and 91. The students can see how the numbers repeat as they look down the columns. The more hundreds charts that get added to the scroll, the higher the final number.
The first graders in Mr. Shuster’s class participated in a Number Scroll Contest that introduced and reinforced the concept of place value. The students set goals and worked hard to achieve silver (700) or gold status (1,000), as they completed their number scrolls and scrolled their way to fame. Here they are proudly displaying their scrolls, almost all of which achieved gold status!
The two pictures are the first grade students showing off their scrolls with Mr. Shuster, their first grade teacher and Dr. Osborne, Principal of Roslyn School.