Saturday, December 8, 2012

Place Value

Why is place value so important in math?  How does it help us to understand quantities?  How can we use our understanding of place value to add or subtract accurately?


Students record their understanding of place value onto their ipads.

David creates a sound recording which describes what happens to a number when the digits are rearranged.

In this math unit, we are working on identifying the digits in a number, rounding off numbers to the nearest hundreds or tens place, adding three-digit numbers, and finding the difference between two numbers.
Use your understanding of place value to solve these problems:
254 + 329 = n                 78 + x = 143                   522 - 218 = a

Sharing their page about place value.