The children in miss Johnson´s, playing a digit game. It is an
excercise meaningfull for young children, it emphasizes the
positional nature of place value. Combines creating a
number, speaking a number, writting a number, and as time
allows, writting a realistic story using a number
Base-Ten
A Brief story: When commerce and the need for taxes
developed, civilizations made marks upt o 10, with
special symbol for 10. Our present system is described as
a Hindu-Arabic numeration system.
unique features of the base-ten system
Numeral
Base-ten
is a
positional
system
The value of the
whole number is the
sum of its parts or
the valye assigned to
each digit.
Algorithms
Multiple conceptions of place value
Five common ways of thinking
about the two-digit number.
NUnitary-multidigit
Decade and ones
Sequence tens and ones
Units of tens
Integrated sequence
Children´s unstructed strategies
The traditional method
emphasizes learning to line up
digits and computing from right
to left often using boxes as
visual aid. When allowed to
approach the process on their
own, children universally begin on
the left. and regroup back and
fortg until they arrive at an
answer.
Manipulatives
Proportional:
SHow
relationships by
size.
Trading
games:
Count and
group.
Teaching with
beansticks or
base-ten blocks:
proportional
materials.
To add, to subtract,
to add with
regrouping, to
subtract with
regrouping, to
multiply, to connect
the materials to
papper and pencil
computation
Teaching with the
abacus or money: are
nonproportional
systems. The abacus
shows numbers into the
billions. Play money
helps students see
relationships on value.
Estimating and rounding:
Many uses of numbers
are good guesses or
estimates
Rounding is
relation to
position.
When a number is
halfaway or more tha
halfaway we round
up.
Understanding of place value
Of the unit ten occurs when a
teacher presents a story problem
that could lend itself to efficient
solving if the student recognizes
the role of base ten.