Place Value: A story about monkeys jumping on the bed

Posted by Georgina Dankwah

Author and illustrator: David Adler and Edward Miller

Recommended grade levels: Grades 1–5

Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract. 4. Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used. Understand that in adding two-digit numbers, one adds tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten.

CCSS.Math.Content.K.NBT.A.1 Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and further ones.

CCSS.Math.Content.1.NBT.B.2 Understand that two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones, including the following cases: (2a) 10 can be a bundle of ten ones, and (2b) 11 to 19 can be composed of a ten and one through nine ones.

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Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form

CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.C.5

Relate counting to addition and subtraction (e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2).
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Summary: The monkeys in this book can tell you why! As they bake the biggest banana cupcake ever, they need to get the amounts in the recipe correct. There’s a big difference between 216 eggs and 621 eggs. Place value is the key to keeping the numbers straight. Using humorous art, easy-to-follow charts and clear explanations, this book presents the basic facts about place value while inserting some amusing monkey business

Rating……. This is a great book for elementary students. It makes learning math fun by explaining the place value of numbers along with easy to understand pictures. Thrown into the mix are little monkeys who like to bake.

Classroom ideas: This book is used to teach mathematical concepts in place value. Extending number relations to larger numbers, connecting to real-world ideas. Students may look for numbers and manipulate to find out that, the order is important with both words and numbers. Students could begin with words that have the same letters but different meanings because of ordering. Example POT and TOP. The place of each digit in a number determines its value. Example 9,347 and 7,493 have the same digits, but because their order is different the number is different.