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Develop strong number sense with our 120s Chart Center! This differentiated pocket chart math center helps students practice counting and understanding numbers up to 120. Perfect practice for place value, expanded form, and addition facts.
Develop strong number sense with our 120s Chart Center! This differentiated pocket chart math center helps students practice counting and understanding numbers up to 120. Perfect practice for place value, expanded form, and addition facts. When students place numbers on the 120’s chart, they are learning to notice patterns between numbers. As students become faster in completing the chart they ‘level-up’ to other card sets.
6 Levels of Cards Included:
Initially I only use the number cards (1-120) for all 3 of my math groups. Students pull a number and then, place it in its home. Many students will individually count each square on the 120s chart until they find the desired home. Eventually, students will discover ‘tricks’ for finding the number’s home – counting by tens, noticing the number’s relationship to other numbers in the 120s chart, etc.
After students are successful using the number cards, I introduce the Place Value cards. These place value cards are perfect for practice counting tens and ones. Next, I introduce the tens/ones cards for the numbers (1 ten 8 ones). Then, students use the expanded form of each number to place it on the chart (30 + 8). I use Set 5 later in the year when we work on subtraction and Set 6 when we need practice Making 10 to Add.
To keep the cards organized and easy to sort, I copy them on colored cardstock, each set in a plastic baggies, magnet-ed to the back of a filing cabinet where our 120s chart hangs. Students know which baggies to grab and love to beat their fastest time!
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Teresa G. –
Great for helping students understand different representations of numbers through 120.
vangelic W. –
great resource I used this in stations my students enjoyed it a lot .
Heather K. –
This is an excellent resource to have in your math centers. My students really enjoyed doing this activity and were very engaged!
Janel W. –
I appreciated the different and varied ways to count to 120.
Kari B. –
Great resource to use with my second-grade students.
Jessica S –
This has been really engaging for students to work through. It provides great extra practice.
Vanessa G. –
great resource! kept my students engaged and loved it!
Amanda D. –
My students love these and so do I! I love vertical activities when possible and this hits the mark!
Emily D. –
This resource was engaging, well-organized, and easy to implement in my first-grade classroom. My students stayed focused, participated enthusiastically, and demonstrated strong understanding throughout. The clear directions and meaningful activities made preparation simple. I highly recommend this resource to any primary teacher seeking effective, enjoyable, standards-aligned learning experiences for young learners every single time again.
Victoria R. –
I brought this in the middle of last year and it was great for higher leavel thinkers as well as struggling. My class loved it. I will be starting to use this from the very begining of the school year! Warning: You might have to get more than one 120,s chart because everyone wants to do this center.LOL
Michelle K. –
Very often my kids would come in to the classroom and find one or more of these cards on their desk which meant they had to place it in the chart. They loved doing it and were disappointed on the days they didn’t have a colored card!
Whats her name on TPT –
my kids use this when they come in, before they even drop their back pack, they grab a number and place it. as the year goes on, the pockets change.
Grace D. –
This resource is exactly what I was searching for!
Mrs.Adams at Home –
This is a product you didn’t know you needed! They were such a fun way to get my class involved in building a 120 chart. It was used throughout the year to continue practicing and looking for patterns on the chart.
Sarah H. –
This is an awesome, easy to set up math station for building number sense
Alicia L. –
This differentiated 120 chart center strengthens counting, number patterns, and place value understanding through engaging activities. Students enjoy the interactive pocket chart format.