Teaching Arithmetic: Lessons for Introducing Place Value, Grade 2

Second Graders Conduct Investigations that Help Build Their Understanding of the Tens and Ones Structure of Our Number System

Maryann Wickett, an elementary classroom teacher and a mathematics staff developer in San Marcos Unified School District, is a 1996 recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching and a Math Solutions Inservice instructor Marilyn Burns is a nationally known mathematics educator whose messages about teaching math have reached teachers through her many books, videotapes, audiocassettes, and extensive program of Math Solutions Inservice courses. She is the recipient of the 1996 Glenn Gilbert National Leadership Award given by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the 1997 Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education given by the Association for Women in Mathematics