Place Value Apps, Ideas and Activities

Place Value Ideas, Activities, and Apps Apps: • • • • • • •

Place Value MAB ($1.99) Montessori Place Value ($1.99) Hands-on Math Base Ten Blocks ($1.99) Wizlearn At Your Service (free) Wishball ($0.99) Base Ten Number Blocks ($0.99) Place Value ($0.99)

Activities/Ideas

500

60

8

5 6 8

• Place Value Cards- These cards can be used for place value, writing numbers in expanded form, multi-digit addition and subtraction and composing and decomposing numbers. Each place value 500 should be color coded. separate the numbers for expanded notation. This helps students understand that 568 is really 500+60+8 • Interactive math journal page for Place Value.

Place Value • Place Value mountain climb with different notation forms.

• Place Value Initials- Use base 10 blocks to create the student’s initial of their first and last name.

Place Value Initial

60

5 00

60 8 Place Value Climb

500

hundreds

35

8

1,246,300,553

68

My first initial has 1 ten and 8 ones.

Expanded form: 10+8 Standard form: 18 Word form: eighteen Ordinal form: 18th Even number Tally: |||| |||| |||| ||| Money: 1 dime, 1 nickel, 3 pennies

Inspiring every child to: Imagine Believe Achieve Create

1,000,000,000 + 200,000,000 + 40,000,000 + 6,000,000 + 300,000 + 500 +50 + 3 One billion, two hundred, forty-six million, three hundred thousand, five hundred, fifty, three.

Place Value Ideas, Activities, and Apps Activities/Ideas • Place value cups- a set of foam cups for each place value you are going up to (4 for the thousands) for each student. Position the opening of the cup to the left so that numbers are read left to right. Write number 0-9 in sharpie along the rim of each cup. On the inside of the cup, write the 0 (for tens place) 00 (for hundreds place) and 000 (for thousands place) followed by a + sign next to each number on the rim.

• Place Value Snake- Use construction paper to create a place value snake using standard form and expanded notation.

• Number line-up game- Give students large digit cards (numbers written on 8.5” x 11” paper). Ask student to form numbers that fit specific conditions: • Line up to build the largest number possible.

• Line up to build the smallest number.

• Build a number between 50,000 and 60,000.

• Build a different number between 50,000 and 60,000.

• Call out place values and ask student in that space to raise the card above their head.

• Top it Game- Use number cards 1-9 in a card deck. Each student should choose a card at a time and place it on their place value mat. Once a card has been placed, it can’t be moved. The goal is to create the largest number possible.

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Top It! Thousands Hundreds

Inspiring every child to: Imagine Believe Achieve Create

Tens

Ones