🎓 Predicting Numbers – Year 3 (ACARA Code : AC9M3N01)
🎯Focus: Understand place value and patterns in numbers when adding 1, 10, 100, or 1,000. Students will predict how numbers change and calculate quickly without counting each number individually.
🎥Video Lessons
Watch our video to explore predicting numbers and spotting patterns.
💡 Video Tips:
- ⏸️ Pause after each example and ask students to identify which digit changes
- 👉 Focus on ones, tens, hundreds, or thousands place as you add numbers
- 🔁 Replay tricky sequences to reinforce learning
💡 Key Ideas (Quick Guide)
📊 Patterns help predict numbers – adding 1 changes ones, adding 10 changes tens, etc.
🔢 Place value matters – which digit increases depends on what you add
👀 Observe sequences – see repeating patterns to predict next numbers
✍️ Practice mental addition by visualising numbers on a number line
🧩 Mini Quiz – Quick Check
Try these after watching the video:
❓Question 1: 49 + 1 = ?
✅ Answer: 50
❓Question 2: 236 + 10 = ?
✅ Answer: 246
❓Question 3: 1,199 + 100 = ?
✅ Answer: 1,299
❓Question 4: Which digit changes when you add 1,000 to 5,274?
✅ Answer: Thousands place
❓Question 5: Predict the next number: 10,009 → 10,019 → ?
✅ Answer: 10,029
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