Number Sense and Place Value Activities
Added: 30 Mar 2020
Contributor:
PDST
Resource type:
Lesson Plan
This feature aims to support you in developing children's number sense and their understanding of place value. The first three articles unpick the ideas associated with these important areas of mathematics and outline relevant research. The fourth article links to a range of tasks and our rationale for choosing them. You can see the tasks themselves, which we have grouped into five categories, by scrolling down further.
How it maps to the curriculum
- 3-4
- Mathematics
Strand: Number
Strand unit: Place Value
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- explore and identify place value in decimal numbers to one place of decimals.
- explore and identify place value in decimal numbers to two places of decimals.
- explore and identify place value in whole numbers, 0-999
- explore and identify place value in whole numbers, 0-9999
- read, write and order four-digit numbers and solve simple problems
- read, write and order three-digit numbers
- round whole numbers to the nearest ten or hundred
- round whole numbers to the nearest thousand
