Place Value

We have been learning about place value throughout the school year.  One of the activities that we do that teaches place value is our daily tally.  Every day we put a popsicle stick in the 100's chart. We observe that the number of days we have been in school goes up by 1 each day.  The rule we follow is that there cannot be 10 in the 1's place - the 1's place is for single digits only.  When we get to 10 sticks we bundle the sticks up and move them into the 10's place.  The same rule goes for the tens place - you can not have ten 10's in the tens place - you must bundle 10 up and move them to the 100's place.  We use the bundles and singles to practice counting 10's and 1's together.