Place Value

A parent was working with her children who had some problems with place value. The problem was the children didn’t fully understand the concept of place value and how it works. Numbers, such as 84, have two digits. Each digit is a different place value. The left digit is the tens' place. It tells children that there are 8 tens. The last or right digit is the ones' place, which is 4 in this example. Therefore, there are 8 sets of 10, plus 4 ones in the number 84. To help solve this problem, I showed the child an interactive game on the computer.


The game is fun and engaging, with Flinkster characters the children can appreciate. Each screen has a comprehension question where the children need to answer the question based on what they read in the book. For each question there are three or four choices. There are many problems and the children gets immediate feedback; there is even a way to ask the computer to give the correct answer if the children need that kind of help. Children can even decide to play with a timer and scoring…or not.

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