Suzy Sanders Place Value vs Face Value

Title: Place Value vs Face Value

Author: Rachel McAnallen

Source: http://www.zoidandcompany.com/withoutworksheets_files/%232PlaceValue.pdf

Summary:
      Ms. Math, Rachel McAnallen explains how to teach place value using $100, $20, $10, $5, $2, and $1 denomination bills. Target audience is 4-6th grades.

1. Give pre-test using copied bills and all possible three-digit combinations using these bills.
2. Demonstrate how numbers are adjectives, not nouns.
3. Demonstrate how numbers are written in different forms, related to rubber band.
4. Teach that numbers are spoken in descending order. Keep teens for last.
5. Relate place value to position power using school hierarchy.
6. Have a place value party.
7. Teach numbers vs digits. Increasing or decreasing value.
8. Post-test using same copied bills and all possible combinations as above.

Analysis:

This article would make it very easy for me to teach place value to a class. I taught 3rd grade and using this method would have been fantastic. Students seem to have a better grasp of money than any other sense of number in other forms. By 3rd grade they know that $100 is better to have than $5 etc. Working through this lesson and relating all numbers to money would make it much easier for them to understand that a number is more than just digits written side-by-side.

Suzy Sanders