Number and Place Value are the unerpinning disciplines of maths.
Number – number sense is about building knowledge and understanding of the number system, quantities and relationships.
Place value. Based upon the number ten this is a series of columns or places, each ten times bigger than the one on its right or ten times smaller than the one on its left.
Where a digit appears tells us its value. E.g. a 2 in the hundreds column is worth 200; in the tens it’s worth 20. Place value allows us to make any number we want from the ten digits that we have.
This is not so much about why, but more about how you should count with your child. Many of the ideas covered here come from Fosnot & Dolk, 2001. Maths is a broad topic that has many descriptions. It is all things to all people. I’m going to offer my opinion and say this it … Read more