Place Value: Why It’s Hard, and How to Teach It So It Sticks
What Is Place Value? Place value is the idea that a digit’s value depends on where it sits in a number. In 47, the 4 isn’t just “four” — it’s four tens, or 40. Swap the digits to 74, and that same 4 is suddenly worth 4 ones. It sounds simple once it clicks, but
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