Instructor Steve

We're all familiar with the conventional 100 chart, but it's good to think outside the box. The traditional 100 chart does not have a zero, something that Indian and Arab mathematicians realized was essential long before Europeans did. Also, the traditional 100 chart puts the most familiar numbers at the farthest distance from the reader (according to top-down, left-right reading conventions). This 100 chart helps to lift future mathematicians, like giving them a flying carpet to learn on. T

This instructional worksheet teaches children what 'place' means for numbers between 1 and 110. It combines familiar tools: the ten-frame, stick-figures of people, and the opportunity to color within the lines. In doing so, it allows children to count people, each of whom has ten fingers, as a single unit, for numbers in the ten's place. Children can choose to draw the stick figure of a person or to color in two hands (ten fingers) for numbers in the ten's place (e.g., 10, 20, 30, . . .90).