Helping students develop confidence with number place value is one of the most important skills to teach. How can you make place value more concrete for students to understand? Use place value anchor charts as a visual reminder students can use to master place value standards.

In this post, you’ll find math resources for:

• ways to represent ones, tens, and hundreds

• ways to represent numbers in word form, standard form, and expanded form

Place Value

With modeling and opportunities for independent practice with manipulatives, students will develop skills to compose and decompose numbers by place value.

Ones Place

Place value begins when students develop an understanding of counting with one-to-one correspondence.

Students need many opportunities to practice counting with manipulatives in different situations. Being exposed to these situations will help students understand that numbers 1 through 9 can be used to create other larger numbers.

Tens Place

Use a 10 frame to help students move from building single digit numbers to double-digit numbers. A 10 frame is the perfect tool to help students understand how to compose and decompose the number 10.

You can’t teach place value without base 10 blocks. Teach students how to draw their own base 10 blocks as an additional counting strategy.

Hundreds Place

Use a 100 chart and a bag of coins to move to understanding the hundreds place.

Have a discussion about how many pennies it will take to fill the whole 100 chart.

It can be difficult for students to understand how to read and write numbers with 3 digits. Use an anchor chart as a visual reminder of how to read and write numbers.

Ways to Represent Numbers

Once your students have mastered their understanding of place value, they can begin representing numbers in different ways.

Standard Form

When students write a number, it’s in standard form.

Word Form

Writing numbers in word form helps students understand the place value of 2 and 3 digit numbers.

Expanded Form

When students write in expanded form, they create an equation by stretching the number by place value.

Wrap-Up

When students develop a strong foundation with place value, they can use their skills and strategies to solve more challenging problems.

1. Use base 10 blocks and money to help students make place value more concrete.

2. Place value anchor charts and journal pages can be used as a reference all year long.

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