LESSON 1 Show Big Numbers

Understanding Place Value

Students in a fifth-grade Social Studies class are learning about populations. Their teacher wrote some populations on the board for them to read and write.

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The teacher and these students read a play. It is about students who work together to solve a problem about big numbers.

The characters in the play are:

• Not Sure
• Problem Solver
• Loves Lists
• Remembers Rules
• Teacher