It is imperative that teachers know systematic ways of teaching the concept and build understanding because it is a foundation for so many other mathematical concepts that children will struggle with if they do not master it early on.
It is also important to teach children the concept of place value because...
There is much to learn in this topic about regrouping and understanding why we round numbers that can be incorporated for a full understanding.
Teaching this concept can be crossed into multiple curriculums such as language arts in which they can write in math journals about the manipulatives they used and general notes about the concept.
NCTM Standards state, "Making a transition from viewing ten as simply the accumulation of 10 ones and to seeing it both as 10 ones and as 1 ten is an important step to understanding the structure of the base-ten number system."
Why is it important to build an understanding of Place Value at a young age?
Understanding place-value relationship
The role of counting
Grouping (large numbers like 999, we don't want to sit and count out 999 units)
It is imperative that teachers know systematic ways of teaching the concept and build understanding because it is a foundation for so many other mathematical concepts that children will struggle with if they do not master it early on.
It is also important to teach children the concept of place value because...
Why is it important to build an understanding of Place Value at a young age?