Your students have been recruited to find the missing numbers on the hundreds chart stolen by the 100 Chart Thief! This adventure entices your students to find and fill in the missing numbers to 100 in a number before and after, ten more, and ten less 100 chart pattern. This Building Thinking Classrooms style math task will help your students recognize patterns in the 100’s chart and save the day!

This resource comes with Google Slides and PowerPoint versions of the task launch, done-for-you thin slicing, 3 levels of challenging but achievable check-your-understanding questions, and an optional practice sheet for early finishers! 

This task is no-prep and powerful! Just print the recording sheets and launch the task! A perfect time-saving math activity when you are short on planning time or energy, but want your students to engage in a rich, low floor high ceiling math task!

What’s included?

• Google Slides and Powerpoint Task Launch and Partner Expectations slides
• A PDF with
  • Step-by-step Task Directions
  • Recording Sheets
  • Thin Slicing 100 Chart Pattern Prompts
  • Mild, Medium, and Spicy Check Your Understanding Sheets
  • Early finishers practice page
  • 100 Chart
  • Answer Keys 
  • Table of Contents
  • Building Thinking Classrooms Terms Cheatsheet and additional resources
    

How to use

Going through this task from start to finish can take 1-2 class periods depending on your students, especially if you are giving your students ample time to support each other and move through all of the levels of difficulty.

1. Make copies of check your understanding recording sheets.
2. Introduce the task in either PowerPoint or Google Slides.
3. Give your students random partners and let them work together with whiteboards and markers to figure out the missing numbers that the 100 Chart Thief stole.
4. Give them a choice of which Check Your Understanding activity they would like to do to reinforce and apply the strategies they worked on. 

There is more! You may have caught this thief, but can you catch them all? Each thief has a different 100s chart pattern that they steal their numbers in! Continue the adventure in the 100 Chart Thieves series!

This task is perfect if you are just beginning to implement the Building Thinking Classrooms Framework. Even if you are unfamiliar with the Building Thinking Classrooms Framework, this task is a fantastic way to engage your students in a math task they will love with detailed task directions, Google slides visual supports and recording sheets!

Your students will practice

✅ 100 Chart Patterns

✅ Double Digit Number Writing and Recognition

✅Critical Thinking

✅ Social skills and cooperative learning

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