Place Value Teaching

Educators assume a vital role and considerable amount of responsibility for creating positive learning environments, ensuring students have the best conditions for learning. “Place value understanding develops from a variety of experiences, such as counting and mental computation” (Reys et al., 2017, p.220). Once teachers develop their students counting skills, a range of other effective tasks and resources can be used to further teach place value. One task that aids teachers in teaching place value is ensuring that students are proficient at counting and remembering that zero is also a number and can hold a place value. At times Children do not realize that zero is a number which makes it difficult for them to comprehend the place value of zero in numbers such as 103 and 1005. “Although the notion of zero will continue to be expanded and developed throughout primary school mathematics, children should experience the role of zero in place value early and often” Reys …show more content…
Therefore ensuring that Children are able to group numbers of ten allows them to develop an understanding that ten ones are one ten. This encourages students to learn multiples of ten, twenty, thirty ect and develop the habit of grouping numbers and collections when counting, making it easier to see the amount of numbers or objects. According to the Department of Education and Training of Western Australia First Steps in mathematics resource otherwise known as FSiM (2004), “Students should develop the idea that the way we write numbers makes it easy to count forwards and backwards in tens, hundreds, and so on, as well as from any number” (p. 60). Hands-on activities and resources such as jigsaw cards, ten frames, hundreds, tens and ones MAB cubes, 0-99 and 1-100 number charts can be used to further develop children’s understanding of grouping, subitizing and counting (FSim, 2004,