If you've missed any part of the series, here's what we've covered so far:
Part 1: The Chocolate Factory which covered the regrouping or trading aspect of place value and explored regrouping in base ten and other bases.
Part 2: Base Ten for Young Students which introduced several games and trading activities to help young children acquire a solid foundation in place value.
Part 3: The Bake Sale demonstrates the role of place value in long division.
Today, Part 4: Geometry of Place Value will explore place value within a quadratic equation. We will further show that each monomial can be modeled geometrically.
I'll meet you there.
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Also coming up: Special reports on calculator use in primary/elementary schools. Do calculators contribute to the development of math reasoning skills?