Examining First-Graders’ Developing Understanding of Place Value via Base-Ten Virtual Manipulatives

Author(s):  
Lucia M. Flevares ◽  
Michelle Perry ◽  
Shereen Oca Beilstein ◽  
Neet Priya Bajwa
2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 404-412
Author(s):  
Aki Murata ◽  
Chana Stewart

This set of lesson examples demonstrates effective uses of magnets, number lines, and ten-frames to implement practice standards as first graders use place value to solve addition problems.


1990 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 180-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen C. Fuson ◽  
Diane J. Briars

A learning/teaching approach used base-ten blocks to embody the English named-value system of number words and digit cards to embody the positional base-ten system of numeration. Steps in addition and subtraction of four-digit numbers were motivated by the size of the blocks and then were carried out with the blocks; each step was immediately recorded with base-ten numerals. Children practiced multidigit problems of from five to eight places after they could successfully add or subtract smaller problems without using the blocks. In Study 1 six of the eight classes of first and second graders (N=169) demonstrated meaningful multidigit addition and place-value concepts up to at least four-digit numbers; average-achieving first graders showed more limited understanding. Three classes of second graders (N=75) completed the initial subtraction learning and demonstrated meaningful subtraction concepts. In Study 2 most second graders in 42 participating classes (N=783) in a large urban school district learned at least four-digit addition, and many children in the 35 classes (N=707) completing subtraction work learned at least four-digit subtraction.


2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-82
Author(s):  
Amy R. Kari ◽  
Catherine B. Anderson

The problem 11 + 9 was written on the board at the front of the room. Eleven first graders and nine second graders sat on the carpet, their facial expressions intent as they thought about solutions. I had asked them to try to think of strategies they could use that did not involve counting on their fingers. They did not use paper and pencil because this was what we call “Mental Math” time at our school.


1999 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 154-159
Author(s):  
Susan Hampton Auriemma

How much is a hundred?” How would your students respond to such a question? This article shares the experiences of my first graders as they participated in activities that develop number sense to answer this question. Teaching number sense to students in grades K–4 is an important goal of the NCTM's Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (1989). The following activities are based on the Standards in many ways. They require problem solving, reasoning, communicating, and connecting mathematics to everyday situations that interest children. They provide opportunities to develop measurement and place-value concepts and to integrate reading, writing, drawing, and mathematics in ways that contribute to a cooperative learning environment.


1957 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 217-218
Author(s):  
Irene R. MacRae

Many teachers find that place value is one of the more difficult number concepts to explain to small children. The following game was devised to help reinforce the understanding of place value after it has been introduced by the use of the Hundreds, Tens and Ones Chart. This chart is familiar to primary teachers. The game uses the same pocket device used in the chart. Thus children can reinforce their initial learning by practice under conditions similar to those in which the learning took place.


Author(s):  
Alp Aslan ◽  
Anuscheh Samenieh ◽  
Tobias Staudigl ◽  
Karl-Heinz T. Bäuml

Changing environmental context during encoding can influence episodic memory. This study examined the memorial consequences of environmental context change in children. Kindergartners, first and fourth graders, and young adults studied two lists of items, either in the same room (no context change) or in two different rooms (context change), and subsequently were tested on the two lists in the room in which the second list was encoded. As expected, in adults, the context change impaired recall of the first list and improved recall of the second. Whereas fourth graders showed the same pattern of results as adults, in both kindergartners and first graders no memorial effects of the context change arose. The results indicate that the two effects of environmental context change develop contemporaneously over middle childhood and reach maturity at the end of the elementary school days. The findings are discussed in light of both retrieval-based and encoding-based accounts of context-dependent memory.


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