E - Understanding and using place value to solve problems
This resource is designed to help learners use place value to solve problems.
About this resource
This resource helps learners to understand and use place value to solve problems.
Focusing on:
- creating models of whole numbers using place value materials
- ordering three-digit numbers
- using place value partitioning as a strategy to solve addition and subtraction problems.
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E - Understanding and using place value to solve problems
Required materials
See Materials that come with this resource to download:
- Learning to understand and use place value to solve problems (.pdf)
Target group: Students in years 3–6
Teacher observation over a range of activities
The student may have rote-learned place value names and may be able to identify the digit in the tens or hundreds place but cannot create a model of whole numbers. The student may not understand 10 as the basis of our number system and may see 1 purely as a counting unit.
Possible barriers to the student’s progress
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