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Amount
These tasks will help learners develop their understanding of place value, particularly giving them opportunities to express numbers as amounts.
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Position
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.
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Ten-ness of Ten
These tasks will help children understand the 'ten-ness' of ten, a fundamental part of place value.
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How Can I Support the Development of Early Number Sense and Place Value?
This article for primary teachers expands on the key ideas which underpin early number sense and place value, and suggests activities to support learners as they get to grips with these ideas.
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Place Value as a Building Block for developing fluency in the calculation process
This article for primary teachers encourages exploration of two fundamental ideas, exchange and 'unitising', which will help children become more fluent when calculating.
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Place Value: The Ten-ness of Ten
This article develops the idea of 'ten-ness' as an important element of place value.
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Number Sense and Place Value Current Feature
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
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Activities on the Gattegno Chart
In this article, Alf outlines six activities using the Gattegno chart, which help to develop understanding of place value, multiplication and division.
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Journeys on the Gattegno Tens Chart
Alf describes how the Gattegno chart helped a class of 7-9 year olds gain an awareness of place value and of the inverse relationship between multiplication and division.