Important learning in place value for children to develop Suzanne Akrap
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IMPORTANT LEARNING IN PLACE VALUE FOR CHILDREN TO DEVELOPSUZANNE AKRAP
The planning cycle is the first key to ensureYour lessons are prepared productively so your
Students will understand place value. Planning
Cycle DETWA,
2004
Professional Judgement: Knowledge, experience
and evidence
Pedagogy: Decide on learning
activities and focus questions
Mathematics: Decide on the mathematics
needed to move
students on
Students: Observe
students and interpret what they do and
sayHELPING CHILDREN LEARN PLACE VALUE
• The use of varieties of mental, diagrammatic and informal written strategies help to visualise the
meanings of place value.•Encourage students to use the patterns in the way we
write and say numbers to split numbers into parts in helpful ways.
• Visual reminders can be used in the classroom such as:
Place value matsGrouping and trading of objects
Counting objects and understanding the patternsReading and writing numbers
Children need to understand:*The order of digits makes a
difference*The position of a digit tells us
the quantity it represents*Zero is used as a placeholder
*There is constant multiplicative relationship between the places with the values of the position
increasing in powers of 10 from right to left
*The value of the digit multiplied by the value of the place tells us the quantity a digit represents.