Funer's Hardware Store

Last week we introduced our Second Graders to Funer's Hardware Store. The store sells centimeter bricks for construction. The blocks are sorted in singles, rods of 10 bricks, and flats of 100 (they are easy to load on the forklift!). 

Job posting found in our classroom

Funer's Hardware Store sells centimeter bricks in singles,
10-rods and flats of 100.

We saw a flyer looking for part-time workers at Funer's Hardware Store and decided to give it a go! We got the job! As soon as we got to our desks, the phone orders started coming in. "Hello! Funer's Hardware Store. How may I help you?" "Funer's Hardware Store!" "Hello! We're here to take your order!" were heard throughout the classroom. To make it easy for the workers in the warehouse, we drew pictures of how many singles, rod and flats they needed to get for each phone order. 

This worker received one order for 342 bricks, which she sorted into
3-hundreds (flats), 4-tens (rods) and 2-ones (singles) and another order
for 750 bricks, which she sorted into 7-hundreds (flats) and 5-tens (rods).
Her sorting made the warehouse workers' jobs so much easier!

Funer's Hardware Store was very busy on Friday. We took nearly 100 orders! Tomorrow we will continue to take more orders - but with much larger numbers. We are becoming experts in identifying how many 1's, 10's and 100's are in numbers up to 1,000!