Beans & Cups to Explore Place Value

Description

Place value understanding plays a key role in the mathematical understanding of a child. It is essential to have a strong foundation in place value in order to achieve success in making sense of our number system (based on the digits 0-9), counting, adding multiple-digit numbers, money and many other math skills. For this reason, it is important that place value not be taught in isolation for a few weeks but that it be integrated all year long into the math program. In order to develop place value concepts, activities should involve concrete models, practice using place value language orally, illustrations and symbols. The activities should focus on one or more of the following three main components of place value: grouping activities, giving oral names for numbers and written symbols for the concepts. In this resource we explore the concept of grouping and regrouping to build up on an understanding of place value.