Place Value refers to the value we give to a digit based on its position in a number. For example, the 5 in 352 is in the tens column, so it is worth fifty rather than five. The 3 is in the hundreds column, so it is worth three hundred.

Place Value is a huge topic and there are many skills for students to learn, including recognising, modelling, reading, writing, comparing and ordering numbers.

Developing a really strong sense of the numbers 1-20 is a key skill. Can the student say all of the ways to make 18? (ie. 14 and 4, 12 and 6, 17 and 1... etc.). Do they know one more/ one less and ten more/ten less?

See below for an explanation video, online teaching and learning tools, and an image carousel of some of the Place Value games we play at MPRPS.