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Teaching Place Value Relationships

When I was teaching high school, place value was a concept that just seemed to exist; it was inherent in everything I taught, yet received little attention. I simply took it for granted. As I transitioned to working with students and teachers in the elementary grades, I realized that this was a mistake because place value was a concept that many of my students probably never fully understood. Place value is far more than just ones, tens, and hundreds. To really understand the concept of place value, we need to understand the relationship between the places.

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