Place Value

The students have been working hard to master place value and represent numbers between 1-100.

I am attaching a fun game that I encourage you to play with your child.  This game will help them practise place value (tens and ones) and give them helpful strategies for addition and subtraction.

1) Use a blank hundreds chart.  Write only the numbers 1 and 100 on the chart.  Leave the rest blank.
2) Ask your child to locate a number on the blank 100's chart (say, 24).
3) Watch how your child locates the number 24 - is he/she counting each square (by 1s) or going to the 4s column and counting down by 10s?  Or is he/she counting by 10s and then adding 4?
All of these different strategies are helping him/her understand and represent numbers.
4) Think of another number and have your child find it
OR
5) You can add on an addition - once at the number 24, add any number (say, 11). 
6) Watch how your child adds the number 11 - is he/she counting by 1s or adding 10 to 24 and then adding 1?

This activity will help with mental math and aims to make addition and subtraction easier, as students pick up strategies for breaking down a number to 10s and 1s.

Amusez-vous!