SEN: DyscalculiaYears 1–6Dyscalculia Support

Place value with manipulatives

Understand place value (ones, tens, hundreds) using physical or virtual manipulatives like base-10 blocks, place value counters and charts.

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine you have 24 buttons. You put them in piles of 10 — 2 piles of 10, and 4 left over!

  2. 2

    How many piles of 10 do you get from 24 buttons?

  3. 3

    Build 24 by dragging tens and ones. Tap to add a ten or a one.

  4. 4

    Let's look at 35 together. How many tens and ones?

  5. 5

    Now try 35 yourself. Show me the tens and ones.

  6. 6

    How many tens are in 53?

  7. 7

    What does the 2 in 26 stand for?

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