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Your Place Value Chart Might Be Teaching the Wrong Thing
From Teaching Math Made Easy · Hosted by Greg Coleman
2026-10-13·516
Episode summary
In this episode of Teaching Math Made Easy: A student can fill in a place value chart perfectly, every digit in the right column, and still have no idea what those digits actually mean. Rather than asking whether students filled in the chart correctly, the better question is whether they understand what each digit represents.
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A student can fill in a place value chart perfectly, every digit in the right column, and still have no idea what those digits actually mean. Rather than asking whether students filled in the chart correctly, the better question is whether they understand what each digit represents. This episode walks through how a place value chart can quietly…