Number Systems and Place Value · Number and Operations

Place Value and Renaming

Exploring how the position of a digit determines its value and how numbers can be decomposed in multiple ways.

Key Questions

  1. 1How does the value of a digit change as it moves to the left in a four digit number?
  2. 2Why is it useful to rename 1,200 as 12 hundreds in certain calculations?
  3. 3What would happen to our number system if we did not have a symbol for zero?

NCCA Curriculum Specifications

NCCA: Primary - NumberNCCA: Primary - Place Value
Class/Year: 4th Class
Subject: Mastering Mathematical Thinking: 4th Class
Unit: Number Systems and Place Value
Period: Number and Operations

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