Learning Place Value

Today we made sure everyone can recognise a digit's value in the ones, tens, hundreds and thousands place. For example in the number 3752 the digit 7 has the value of NOT 7 but 700. A trickier example is if a number has zero in it, such as 2803. We know the digit 3 = 3 ones but we have to remember that this 0 means there are no tens. Some of us still need to work on not getting mixed up with a zero in the number!

                                         

Every group worked with Ms Betts throughout the morning to make sure they understood the value of each digit to 9999. There were follow up worksheets and, best of all, other Place Value games to play!                                  

Bingo is a great way to learn PV - everyone liked working with such big numbers. 

I think Charlotte won this game! This activity was to colour the fish...but it wasn't that easy. Each number had a code - different colours for different PV. Jahniq got the hang of it pretty quickly though.

Another activity we played was rolling two dice, adding up the numbers and taking that many ONES. When there were enough ones to make a TEN you swap it for a ten. The aim was to be the first to get to 50. Later on we will make it one hundred, or more, and use 3 or 4 dice at once. 

Lots of addition and counting!