Use Place Value To Support Partitioning

Hi, my name is Ben. Today we're going to be looking at how to use place value to support partitioning. Now, this is a really, really important skill for children to learn and to master because it helps them with many, many different operations. Let's take the number 719. Now I can put that into my place value columns. And it helps the children now that they can really see the value of each digit. We can then write 719 like this. And they can see that 719 is made up of 7 hundreds, 1 ten and nine ones. Let's look at another number, 2,802. We use a similar principle. It is made up of 2000s, 8 hundreds and 2 ones. The 0, of course, has no value. And the children can see that. It's really, really important that the children see the value of each digit. So they don't write down 7 and 1 and 9. That's really, really important. This also helps them when they come to addition. Let's look at, We have 1500, add 719. We can take 719 and we can take the 7 and we can partition that further into 500, add 200 and then 110 and 9 ones. This is really useful because the children will find it much easier to add on 550 then 200. So we have 1500 add 500 is 2000, add the 200 is 2200 and add the 10 and the 9 is 2219. And that's how we can use a place value to solve partitioning problems and how to solve addition.