Place Value
- Do the place value chant with your child (ones, tens, huuuuuuuuundreds, comma thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands). Just start with "ones" and your child should do the rest. Knowing the correct place values is an important skill in helping your child understand and read numbers.
Finding the Value of Digits (will be important when working with expanded form)
- Finding the value of digits in numbers can be difficult. Follow this strategy:
- There are 5 different ways to write numbers. Work with your child on ALL the different ways to write them. Start in word form, and change it to standard. Start with expanded form and change it to standard, or vise versa. Make sure your child understands all the different ways to represent numbers and how to work between them.
Reading Numbers
- Reading numbers is a hard concepts that can easily confuse students. Follow these steps in "karate chopping" and "chunking" numbers that will make reading numbers as easy as 1,2,3!
I hope these tutorials will help you when you are working on your child's homework. Next time I will offer tips on Comparing and Ordering numbers as well as Rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.
Until next time!
Ms. Valdez