Place value

Have a go at these activities which will help you get to grips with one of the main ideas about place value - that is knowing how important the position of a digit is in a number.

These tasks will help learners develop their understanding of place value, particularly giving them opportunities to express numbers as amounts.

One of the key ideas associated with place value is that the position of a digit affects its value. These activities support children in understanding this idea.

This set of activities focuses on ordering, an important aspect of place value.

These tasks will help children understand the 'ten-ness' of ten, a fundamental part of place value.

This feature aims to support you in developing children's number sense and their understanding of place value. The first three articles unpick the ideas associated with these important areas of mathematics and outline relevant research. The fourth article links to a range of tasks and our rationale for choosing them. You can see the tasks themselves, which we have grouped into five categories, by scrolling down further.