Summary
“How To Use Place Value!” is a Jack Hartmann learning song-and-movement video that teaches place value — how tens and ones build a number. Short and catchy — an easy warm-up, transition, or math review.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
In our number system, where a digit sits tells its value — the 3 in 30 means three tens, not three ones.
- How many tens and ones are in the number from this song?
- Why is it helpful to group ones into tens?
- What does the left digit of a two-digit number tell you?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: place value, tens, ones, digit, group.
Try it: Pick a two-digit number and draw it as bundles of ten plus loose ones.