Place Value ??

Some of our children have used Rod and Staff when they were young. They were taught place value with a little barn picture. The lamb slept in the One’s stall, the pig slept in the Ten’s stall, the pony slept in the hundred’s stall. It cemented a spot for those three and then the work became easier as far as identifying each place in a number. It doesn’t work for every child, but doing something similar might help?

other than that, bump. ;0)

Could you make additional place value cards to go with the RS ones? I think RS goes up to 4 digits, so if you made 5, 6, and 7 digit ones to add to the set that would take you into the millions.

She understands 1’s, 10’s and 100’s. How can you show her/help her understand that thousands come in 1’s, 10’s and 100’s, then millions come in 1’s, 10’s and 100’s? When we get to a thousand of something it earns a new name (a thousand thousands are called a million).

@nerakr:  LOVE that idea!  Thanks for the link!

My son had a terrible time with place value and then one day I sat down and on a white board showed him that there are 3 places or rooms to a family or house. 

A hundred place, a tens place, a ones place once the hundreds place has more than 9 in it, then the next # starts a new ones place in a new family The Thousands and once the hundreds place in the Thousands family has more than 9 in it, then the next # starts a new ones place in a new family The Millions and once the hundreds place in the Millions family has a 9 in it, then the next # starts a new ones place in a new family The Billions and etc… You can tell the difference between the families because there is a , or picture it as a fence between the houses….

Billions,  Millions,  Thousands,  (name of this family or house is based on what you are counting…dollars, pigs, people, etc.)

HTO, HTO, HTO, HTO

978, 654, 321, 012

978,654,321,012 = Nine Hundred Seventy eight Billion, six hindred fifty four Million, three hundred twenty one Thousand, and twelve whatever you are counting and if you don’t know what you are counting this house or family is left with no name 🙂

 Had to tell him that when we read the number, we start on left and with the hundreds place, tens place, ones place then family, etc…

This is the only thing that my son understood. I showed him video after video on youtube, Kahn academy and anything else I could think of. Hope it helps. he is 7 and now gets it pretty well.

Channa

I found this poster idea that I am going to put in my son’s math binder for reference.  

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Place-Value-Review-Poster-806403

In order to download and print, you have to set-up an account.  There is a free account option and then a paid option if you want to make available or sell your own materials on the website.  A lot of the resources are free, however.  

You may have already created an account, but it took me longer than I would like to admit looking for how to download.  =)

I think someone else on another thread recommended creating a math reference folder so I am considering setting something like that up.  My son is hard on his papers so I will probably re-print this on cardstock and have it laminated.