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Wow thank you so much for doing this! So useful.
Ben seems very comfy regrouping—has he already done 2-digit addition?
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some. My mom is a retired 4th gifted and later 4th grade teacher, and she said place value is a common problem…
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I’ve worked with him on it since he was 4. Started naming places in numbers, now we add multidigits without carry
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Oh. That explains what we see here. :)
Lends support for idea that “grokking place value” <> “grokking bird game.”
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another data point. This is #Ben's classmate #Rubén. He's English/Spanish bilingual, 7 y/o. youtu.be/tDvxGHhcNgs
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Thanks so much for this, Heath! I wish we’d made the design facilitate “guess and check” a little bit less well.

