Lesson of the Month for May 2025 --Place Value Addition

MAYbe it's time for a new Brick Math free Lesson of the Month! Let's go back to Addition, and give you a lesson that is foundational to many other lessons throughout the Brick Math curriculum. This one teaches students about place value, and also shows how to add using the place value method. To get this lesson, from Brick Math Addition, click here, and you'll also get a new free Brick Math lesson every month after that. ​ 

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In this lesson, the bricks are used to show the  place values of ones, tens, and hundreds. A 1x1 brick models the ones place; a 1x2 brick models the tens place; a 1x3 brick models the hundreds place. Students start by creating models of 3-digit numbers. Once they understand how to model numbers, they use brick models to help them add numbers. It's a great way to explain the concept of place value, which is pivotal to so much math content that students will encounter in the years to come.

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This Lesson of the Month shows pages from the Addition Teacher Edition first, and then shows the corresponding workbook pages for students to use from the companion Addition Student Edition. Students move from a concrete representation of the math to a more abstract representation by drawing the models, then finally to a fully abstract understanding of the math when they describe it in words. In this way, Brick Math helps students gain a deep, true understanding of math, which sets them up for future success as they move through the K-8 curriculum.

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The Brick Math curriculum is divided into 13 separate content areas: 
Counting, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Basic Fractions, Basic Measurement, Fraction Multiplication, Fraction Division, Advanced Measurement and Geometry, Decimals, Data and Statistics, and Pre-Algebra. 

Students can start anywhere in the curriculum. Brick Math can be used as a complete math curriculum or brought in as a supplement to help students who aren't having math success with other programs.

​Check BrickMath.com to learn more!

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