Ten ones make up one of the next larger unit, tens. Ten of those units make up one of the next larger unit, hundreds. At this level, however, your students will be focusing on mastering place value for ones, tens, and hundreds. In standard form, the number modeled above is 233. A place-value chart is a way to make sure digits are in the correct places.
Place value is vitally important to all later mathematics.
Without it, keeping track of greater numbers rapidly becomes impossible. A thorough mastery of place value is essential to learning the operations with greater numbers. All Rights Reserved.