What to do about place value Do not eliminate concrete supports too quickly Some students need more time to explore the physical attributes of number before they are secure moving to paper and pencil tasks. Coloured place-value counters, base-10s and other supports provide valuable reinforcement for number skills. Give students a script to follow Model and teach the language of place value, including solving problems for the basic operations. This is how you might support the

5 reasons place value is so hard to understand For the first four years of life you were told this is the number "one". Your parents affirmed this, your Nursery confirmed this, and your EYFS teacher celebrated you for getting it right. Then something happened when you turned five and entered Year 1. Your new teacher told you that if you put two numbers together and put the number 1 before another number it is no longer a "one" but a "ten", and any number that now follows the

A few quick-win strategies to help your kids learn some of those tricky maths skills