Math Practice

Today I had to help a student who confuses "ones" and "tens" placement in placement value. The teacher gave him three practice worksheets but no direction. So this student came and sat next to me at my table. It wasn't that the worksheets wouldnt help him practice, the problem was he couldn't even understand it to the point of learning from the worksheets. The worksheets were not even good.

Students are not allowed to use tools in the classroom unless the lesson or worksheet calls for it, so for these worksheets the only tool that could be used were his fingers. Fingers aren't normally allowed, but I wanted to make sure he could do the math.