What's 1 more or less than a number? What's 10 more or 10 less than a given number? What's 100 more or 100 less than a number? These are the types of problems learners must answer in a six-question instructional activity.

Concepts

more or less, skip counting by 10, counting by 100, counting by 10, counting by 1

Show More Show Less

Additional Tags

math

Show More Show Less

Instructional Ideas

• Have pairs of students create similar word problems and then have their partners answer them
• Extend the task by adding more word problems to the sheet

Classroom Considerations

• Best used as an assessment

Pros

• Task helps bridge basic place value skills to strategies for adding and subtracting 
• Comes with an answer key/teacher guide to help make sense of the task

Cons

• None

Common Core

2.NBT.A.1.a