This week, we had learned on the numbers’ place value. We were focusing on how to teach primary pupils to understand what actually the place value of numbers. Personally, I realized that it was not easy to teach this topic because there were certain terms which were difficult to convert into words. For example, when we pronounce 432, we won’t say four hundreds three tens and two ones. At first, I couldn’t explain why it was but after having a discussion with the whole class including my lecturer, I realize that the place value and the numbers are different.

Besides learning that, we also had been asked to make number expanders which were related to place value topic and also making a hundred numbers chart. For me, that was an interesting experience because we had never been it out before. Our group have quite numbers of ideas during making the expanders and we manage to complete three number expanders.

For our tutorial, we need to carry out some ideas on how to show 201 and 120 to the pupils. Other than that, we also need to examine a primary mathematics text book and find as many as place-value model had been illustrated in the book and then comment if the text book provides a good choice of models.