Learning Age: 7 to 11 Years

Learning Track: Numeracy Part 2

Place Value and Numbers Review

Y our child should be confident in recognising, reading, and writing numbers.

Understanding 'place value' is used to work out the value of a number.

The position (or 'place') of each digit in a number indicates each digits' value in what makes up the whole number.

The place value of each digit is worth a different amount.

Check your child's knowledge of place value.

Short reminider of place value here...Mini-Lesson

If they need more of a reminder, that can be found here.

Ask your child how many tens and units (ones) there are in 23, at first don't show them the number. If they need more help then show them the number. Answer is 2 tens and 3 units.

Ask your child how many hundereds, tens and units there are in 734, at first don't show them the number, just say it. The answer is 7 hundreds, 3 tens and 3 units.

Ask your child how many thousands, hundereds, tens and units there are in 5432. The answer is 5 thousands, 4 hundreds, 3 tens and 2 units.

If your child needs more help to better understand place value BACK LINK TO FULL PLACE VALUE. Only continue when they are happy with place value.

Next, show these numbers to your child and ask them if they can tell you what they are.

Also point out that commas are usually place after every 3 digits from right to left.

1

10

100

1,000 (notice comma)

1000 (notice no comma)

10,000

100,000

100,050

500,000

1,000,000 Now see if your child can confidently say read these

£1.50

1.2

1020.34

Now say some numbers to your child and ask them to write them down as numbers.

Some numbers have common 'names', it is useful to know them.

A 'dozen' means 12.

A ton means 100.