Find out how you can use this versatile chart to help pupils write, say and partition whole and decimal numbers. 

How to Use the Gattegno Chart to Build Understanding of Place Value

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This video looks at what place value is and the language that we should be using when teaching place value in any year group.

An Introduction to Place Value

This video provides three activities you can use to strengthen pupils understanding of place value and the base ten system. Each can be easily adapted, whether you are focusing on ones, tens and hundreds or decimal place value.

Three Activities to Reinforce Place Value

A summary of how you can use place value charts, base ten, counters and number lines to help pupils build a really solid understanding of place value. 

How to Represent Numbers in Different Ways

A quick tip on helping pupils estimate quantities by referring to a place value chart. 

How to Use Place Value to Inform Estimations in Real Life Contexts

This video gives a quick summary how place value charts are essential in helping pupils partition numbers in different ways and looks at how this supports mental addition.

How to Use Place Value to Support Partitioning

Watch this video to see the specific steps you want to teach pupils to go through in order to order numbers up to 4 digits, using a place value chart.

How to Use Place Value to Order 3 and 4 Digit Numbers

We use a place value chart, counters and a number line to show how you can help pupils quickly add and subtract multiples of ten, hundred and 1000.

How to find 10, 100, or 1000 More or Less than a Given Number

This video goes through the step-by-step approach you can use to teach pupils how to find missing numbers on a number line or on a scale.

How to Work Out Unknown Values on a Number Line

Watch this video for an explanation of how Roman numerals work and top tips for teaching them so that pupils remember them.

How to Teach Roman Numerals

Watch this video for a concrete and pictorial explanation of tenths and hundredths and how they relate to ones.

Place Value Beyond the Decimal Point

Here we give step by step instructions on how to order decimals and address common misconceptions that arise when pupils begin ordering decimal numbers, particularly when the numbers they are comparing have a different number of decimal places. 

How to Read, Write and Order Numbers to Three Decimal Places

Watch this video to see how you can teach place value in numbers up to 10 million and understand how to group the place value columns to help pupils read, write and say numbers with up to 7 digits.

How to Read and Write Numbers up to 10 Million

A short video looking at the importance of pupils being able to identify the nearest multiples of 10 and a handy tip for reinforcing rounding rules.

How to Round a Whole Number to the Nearest 10

Pupils need to think about which column to look at when rounding and have sound knowledge of multiples of 100. See an example in this video.

Maths In Minutes

How to Use the Gattegno Chart to Build Understanding of Place Value

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