What are proportional models and discuss how they can contribute to students understanding of place-value?

What will be an ideal response?


What are proportional models and how do they contribute to conceptual understanding?
1. Most clearly reflect the relationship of ones, tens and hundreds
2. Ten can be made from the single pieces
3. Pre-grouped models cannot be taken apart or put together
4. 10 single pieces must be traded or exchanged for a ten
5. Ten frames show the distance to the next ten
All of the models provide physical evidence and practice with the concept of the ten-to-one relationship.

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