Teaching Tens And Units. Practice what you ve learned with the activities. The extra s then go to mr tens.
Check if it s an addition or subtraction calculation. The rightmost digit is 3 and since it is in the units column it is just worth 3. With simple counting your child might not catch on to the inherent structure of our number system and how it is built with groups of tens hundreds thousands and so on.
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Practice what you ve learned with the activities. Start with the units first. Place value headings like tens and ones tells us about the value of a digit in a number. When children count they basically learn numbers as a kind of continuum that goes on and on.