Place Value in the Classroom Today
Place value is truly an educational term that gets emblazoned into our brains very early on as we learn numbers and how they operate in mathematical equations.
According to the dictionary, “place value is the numerical value that a digit has by virtue of its position in a number”.
Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, and so on.
And the Mayans came up with the concept of the absence of value, which they represented by the number zero.
Hmmm, so this is all great. I used to teach math once upon a time.
However, nowadays, I am thinking about place value in the classroom in other terms. (more…)
