Lesson 1 – Place Value

Objective:

At the end of this lesson, students should be able to know the position of a number in a given digit.

Place value has to do with the position of a number in a given digit. We have units, tens, hundreds, thousands and many more. However, for year one and two, we will only look at units, tens and hundreds.

Example

When I write 21, I can say that I have 2 tens and one unit

Using the abacus to show this, we will have something like this