Makenzie Kroll

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Q.Why is it important that students learn about Place Value?

A. Learning about Place Value helps us understanding the meaning of each digit in a multi-digit number. Being able to bundle up 10 ones, because of the luxury of a tens place, allows us to express numbers like 10 and above efficiently without having to create a new digit for each number. Simply stated, place value helps us make sense of increasingly large (and small) numbers while saving time and energy communicating these values to one another.

Can you imagine having to use 100 different symbols to express values from one to one-hundred? Can you imagine not having an easy way of telling of somebody just gave you $500 or $5,000? Without the current base-10 place value system, our modern lives would be most confusing to say the least!

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