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CTET 7 Feb 2026 Paper 1, Question 46

Topic: Children's errors in maths

Q46

A teacher writes the number 308 on the blackboard and asks the children to read the number loudly. A child says, “It is thirty-eight.” Which among the following is the most appropriate strategy to rectify the error committed by the child?

  1. (1) Ask another child to read the number loudly.
  2. (2) Provide few practical examples to the child to understand the position of digits in a number.Correct answer
  3. (3) Teacher can read the number once and ask the child to repeat.
  4. (4) Ask the child to start counting from 99 up to 308 in continuity.

Solution.

CBSE answer: (2)

Answer: (2) Practical examples on the position of digits

  1. Reading 308 as 'thirty-eight' means the child has skipped the hundreds place and ignored the role of 0.
  2. This is a place value gap, not a reading slip.
  3. Bundles of sticks, place value charts or money (3 hundreds, 0 tens, 8 ones) build that idea concretely.

Trap: making the child repeat after the teacher or another child corrects the word, not the understanding.