Beansticks: How to Teach Place Value Effectively

Teaching Mathematics in the Early Childhood Classroom

1987

A joint publication of the Early Childhood Education Council and
the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

Edited by John B. Percevault and Gordon Orlick

71 – 74

Beansticks: How to Teach Place Value Effectively

Marilyn Harrison

Several years ago, my husband received a copy of Beryl Cochran’s handout, ”An Approach to Place Value Using Beans and Beansticks’ (Cochran 1972).