Then I invented the cake making place value game.
Students are given the icing and must find the ingredients. The colour of the completed cake acts like an answer key but doesn't give the answer away. I display the ingredients in two ways, as numbers and as written ones, tens, hundreds and thousands.
Whiles its quite easy to make your own set of cakes, I do have three version of this game available for purchase.
As each part of the cake is symmetrical you always purchase the thousands place value and remove pieces (thousands and hundreds) to simplify the set for younger students.
Each set has 24 cakes/cupcakes included. I strongly recommend laminating the set for longevity.
Outline of a lesson:
Expose students to the concept that numbers are made
up of ingredients. The ingredients for the number 58 are 50 and 8 or could also
be said as 5 tens and 8 ones. Get students to tell you the ingredients for a
variety of numbers using the idea of making a cake.
Then use this set for a whole class game
where students are given the ‘icing’ (whole number) and must find the
ingredients which are spread out on the floor or a table.
For a follow up lesson get students to
make up their own cakes.
The cup cakes can also be used as a group or independent activity and makes for a quick and fun assessment strategy.
The cup cakes can also be used as a group or independent activity and makes for a quick and fun assessment strategy.
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