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In this video we're going to explore place value. We're really going to think about this idea of tens and ones and partitioning numbers into tens and ones. Now Aaron hasn't really explored this idea of place value in much detail. We have talked about it and we have mentioned it but we haven't actually really physically done it. So the idea of this video is just to show you a really practical way of sorting and partitioning numbers into tens and ones and really thinking about how to do that practically and how to really get that basic understanding in. So we're going to start with basically I have a little board on here and I've written tens and I've written ones. I've got a play-doh with a spaghetti in it and I've got some Cheerios which are really handy too for this. It's a great refined motor skill activity as well. Now Aaron basically what I'm going to ask you to do is I'm going to ask you to do a couple of things okay. The first thing I'm going to ask you to do is to count the Cheerios okay and then I'm going to ask you to sort them because this is a tens tower and only ten Cheerios can fit on here okay. If you have nine they're not allowed on. If you have five they're not allowed on. Only a full tower of ten okay and any ones that are left over they have to go on the ones all by themselves okay. So what I'm just really encouraging is that physical idea of partitioning those numbers. So if you would like to count for me Aaron tell me how many Cheerios you have and I'm going to write the number up here for you okay. All right count out loud for me. So you should know that there's six on a dice. Oh that's six on a dice. And you should know this is five. This is five on a dice. You are correct there are 11. Okay so you've got 11. Okay now can you sort them. Remember only ever this has to be full of ten. This and these are the ones that go on their own okay. Right so see if you can sort them out for me. So now this actual physical idea of sorting into those towers of ten and those ones just to really get that idea of splitting those numbers and that numbers actually do mean different things. Okay good. So I see you've immediately put one over here. Why? Because you see there's 11. If we take away one there's ten. Ah good. So again starting to make those little connections which is great. So check you've got ten on there. Okay and you've got one. So how many tens have you got? One group of ten. One group of ten. This is really really important that you enforce that language. It's very tempting at this point for children to say they have ten tens and this is where the misconceptions start and this is how when it comes to doing that written addition it can get very very confusing. So really encourage that idea of it's one group of ten or one tower of ten so they know that it's one. Okay so can we say that we have one tower of ten and one unit or one one. Yes look do you see it's the same as 11 isn't it? Right let's have another go. Maybe some more cheerios this time okay. I'm going to take these off. You're going to take these off. Okay right here we go. Right tell me what number we're going to start with this time. So count them all for me. Encourage your child to actually touch items as well as they count them so that they have that really concrete one-to-one recognition of numbers with those actual objects as well. Right so I'm going to write 14 up here. Okay yes okay right can you sort them into tens and ones so what are you going to do? These are the one pile. Okay how do you know there's four in the one pile? Because I've counted all of these. Okay and how many have you got? And I've counted to ten. And these were the ones left over were they? Yeah. Okay so can we put these ones on then? It's like a slide for the cheerios. It is like a slide for the cheerios. A really dangerous one. Five. Five more to go. Four. Seven. Eight. So can you write it this time for me? How many tens do you have in 14? And how many ones do you have? Four. And what do you notice? You've got one and four. What do you notice? Yeah do you think you could write it like this? Look one group of ten and four ones. Do you think? Yeah do you think you could? So again showing them how the number is actually made up is really really useful at this point as well. Okay right one last one. Are you ready? Okay this time I'm going to ask you to think about telling me before you split them up. Okay right here we go. All right count your cheerios and tell me what number you've got. And as you can see immediately he's starting to group those into that ten and that seven. He's splitting them as he's counting which is the skill that we really want to encourage at this point. So you've got ten. Okay so can you please do you think so here's 17 okay? Can you tell me how many tens there are in 17? One group of ten. And how many ones? Mm-hmm very good. So we've got one group of ten and we've got seven ones. And what is ten plus seven? Yeah and if we write it down here we have one ten and seven ones. You're going to put them on. So really again about making those connections showing them the different ways. So you've got the number 17 you've got it partitioned into your one group of ten and your seven units or your seven ones and then showing them the actual calculation that it's actually ten plus seven so that your child can start to make those connections. This is just a really simple a really practical activity. Keep with the sorting. If you don't want to even introduce the ten plus the seven at this point feel free not to. Just do lots of sorting and really getting that concrete idea that there's one group of ten and that there are these amount of units or ones. But really do allow your child to have a good experience of sorting and partitioning and really thinking about how to make those numbers.