You pick a number or use the number of the day of the year. Students show the number in a multitude of ways: word form, expanded, using base 10 blocks, comparing, increase and decrease by 1, 10 or 100, with $, with pre-modeled addition or subtraction word problems, or create their own word problem! Originally made for 2nd grade, but this would be a good review for the beginning of the 3rd grade year or could be simplified to 1st grade by using two digit numbers. This is intended to be used a