How it works
These hundreds chart puzzles are pieces cut from the chart with one number given. One square right is 1 more, and one square down is 10 more. Press New puzzle piece for one of 22 shapes, type the missing numbers and press Check.
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How a puzzle piece works
Take a plus-shaped piece with 45 in the middle: 35 sits above, 44 and 46 beside it, 55 below. Down and right adds 11, down and left adds 9.
Filled, blank and partly blank charts
Under Show the numbers, choose Filled in, Blank or Partly blank. For a hundreds chart poster, press Print the chart for the filled chart on one Letter or A4 page. The tool makes no larger poster.
Mark the multiples and round to the nearest ten
Open More options and press up to 4 numbers under Mark the multiples of. For a rounding hundreds chart, press 10. The tool has no rounding view. On 1 to 100, numbers ending in 5 to 9 round up to the ten that ends their row.
- On a printed chart, cross out 1 and each multiple of 2, 3, 5 and 7 except those four. The 25 left are primes.
- Slip printed pieces into a dry-erase pocket, and one page of pieces serves a math station all week.
- For a child who is stuck, ask one question: along the row or down the column? Then count on by 1 or by 10.
Questions and answers
What is a hundreds chart puzzle?
It is a piece of a hundreds chart with one number filled in and the other squares blank. The solver works out each missing number from where its square sits: 1 less to the left, 10 less above. It practices place value.
Should I use 1 to 100, 0 to 99 or 1 to 120?
Match the chart on your wall, and pick it under Numbers on the chart. 1 to 100 is the chart most classrooms have. 0 to 99 keeps each decade, such as 40 to 49, in one row. 1 to 120 adds two rows past 100.
How does a hundreds chart help with rounding?
It shows rounding as a distance. From 47, 50 is 3 squares ahead and 40 is 7 back, so 47 rounds to 50. Numbers ending in 5 sit halfway and round up. Under More options, mark the multiples of 10 to tint the tens.
Which puzzle pieces are easiest?
The 7 shortest shapes, with 3 or 4 squares. A piece along a row is easier than one down a column, because counting by 1 comes before counting by 10. Shapes are dealt at random, so press New puzzle piece until a short one appears.