Module 1 Counting and understanding number
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Can I read, write and partition whole numbers to 1000?

Example review questions

  • Can you write in figures the number two hundred and seven?
  • Read these numbers: 671 and 617. Which is smaller? How do you know?
  • 328 is made up of 300, 8 and what?
  • 472 can be partitioned into 300 + 170 + 2. Can you partition 472 in other ways?
  • Which multiples of 10 are between 386 and 421?
  • What is the value of the digit 5 in these numbers? 352, 65, 511

Teaching guidance

This teaching guidance document suggests some of the key vocabulary, models, images and practical equipment that children should experience and be able to use. It also includes some teaching tips to provide a few starting points for ways of supporting children with this area of mathematics.

DOC file Can I read, write and partition whole numbers to 1000? - teaching guidance | 120KB new window

Consolidation and practice

These resources are to support children in guided or independent work. Roll over the highlighted resources for a description.

PDF file How to use place value ITP | 146KB new window

SWF file Place value ITP | 25KB new window

PDF file How to use bead sticks ITP | 57KB new window

SWF file Bead sticks ITP | 204KB new window

XLS file Place value charts and partitioning tool | 138KB new window

DOC file Place value charts and partitioning tool guide | 263KB new window

PDF file Springboard 3, Unit 1 Place value and ordering of numbers to 100 | 180KB new window

PDF file Springboard 4, Unit 1 Place value and ordering (numbers to 1000) | 170KB new window

PDF file Partitioning and recombining models and images chart | 314KB new window

Place value

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This interactive teaching program (ITP) is an ICT-based tool to support the exploration of place value. Place value ITP allows the child or teacher to represent, partition and recombine three-digit numbers. Each digit can be represented as a group of dots to develop children's understanding of the significance of different digits.

Bead sticks

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This interactive teaching program (ITP) is an ICT-based tool to support the exploration of place value. Bead sticks ITP (version 9) allows the child or teacher to represent numbers (with up to four-digits) and explore addition and subtraction. An animation demonstrates the process of grouping and exchange.

Opportunities to use and apply

Possible contexts include:

  • money and measures, e.g. How could you make £7.34 just using £1, 10p and 1p coins? Find some other ways.
  • calculation, e.g. How could partitioning help you calculate 38 + 25?
  • number patterns and sequences, e.g. 268, 278, 288... What is the rule? Give the next three numbers in the sequence.
  • number problems and puzzles, e.g. If you add the digits of the number 201, they total 3. How many other three-digit numbers can you find with a digit total of 3? Write these in order, smallest first.
 

Confirming learning

Ask probing questions such as:

  • In one step, can you change 326 into 296, 405 into 455?
  • What needs to be added or subtracted to change 627 to 227, 391 to 399?
  • How many three-digit numbers can you write that have four hundreds and six tens?
  • What is the tens digit when you write the number three hundred and seventeen in figures?
  • Can you fill in the missing numbers?
    404 + Empty box = 484
    16 = 46 − Empty box
  • Can you read the number shown here?
    Number grid containing three rows and nine columns. Row one starts with 100 in the left hand box and goes up in increments of 100 from left to right. Row two starts with 10 and goes up in increments of 10 from left to right. Row three starts with one and goes up in increments of one from left to right.