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place value
By LLK

Hi Tanya,
I have taught both grades 5 and 6 and now I am in Grade 4. Here are somethings I have done that have helped my students.
1. Make a large place value chart for the board and keep it up. You can buy them,
but I made one using Print Shop 15. I just typed in the names of the columns and the program allowed me to turn them sideways...vertical I guess is the right word.. I printed them out on bright colored card stock. It will go through your printer one page at a time. I used it to write numbers underneath throughout the unit.
2. I made smaller versions that fit on to a 8x11 piece of

tagboard. My math book had a sheet to use and I just copied it off in a color and laminated onto tagboard. This allowed me to read numbers to the kids and they wrote them on the laminated sheet with transparency pens. We used paper towels and a few squirt bottles of water to clean them. These were big helps in reviewing daily.
3. GAMES...play a lot of games. A good one is to make a number. You can either use dice or playing cards. The students turn over 4 cards ( or whatever you want) and they make the largest number they can...or smallest...then write it onto the wipe off board. In pairs, they can do the same thing and compete, keep points,etc.

I hope this helps. I am not sure I have a solution for the renaming of 1500 to 15 tens, etc.
That is very hard and repetion often doesn't help. All I know for sure is that they forget from year to year and they will get it presented to them again next year, so maybe THEN they will understand it.