Step 1 Objective
Read, write and order whole numbers to at least 1000; know what each digit represents.
- Examples of what pupils should
know and be able to do - Probing questions
- What if pupils find
this a barrier?
What if pupils find this a barrier?
Place value cards are useful to practise the concepts with pupils:
- Use digit cards to show me 364. What does the 3 represent? Remove the 4. What number have you got now? What does the 3 represent now? Why is it different from before?
- Use digit cards in pairs or threes (then you can have numbers with repeated digits!) to make different numbers.
Use a guessing game to guess mystery numbers between 1 and 1000, using 'higher' and 'lower'.
Give pupils a matching activity with common misconceptions, e.g.:
- three hundred and five;
- three hundred and fifty;
- 3005, 305, 350, 30,050.
Place Value ITP - Zip file (458Kb) will help pupils to see the value of each digit.