Tens, ones & base-ten models
Number Words and Place Value Activity Packet
Teach place value (ones, tens, hundreds, thousands) and how to write matching number words, through an assembled mini booklet and a place-value card game.
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Build and compare numbers with place-value games, models and practice activities. Choose tens and ones, larger whole numbers or decimal place value.
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Beginning Place Value: Roll It, Make It Dice Game
Roll one die for tens and another for ones, write the resulting two-digit number, and build it with base-ten blocks or connecting cubes. The recording sheet provides two rounds with separate Tens and Ones columns. Supply the dice and manipulatives for a small-group or station activity.
Tens, ones & base-ten models
Beginning Place Value: Printable and Digital Activity Bundle | Google Slides and Seesaw
A multi-activity bundle for practicing beginning place value (teen numbers through numbers to 100), usable both printed and digitally (Google Slides / Seesaw).
Tens, ones & base-ten models
Game: Hundreds Chart & More or Less
A place-value math game using a hundreds chart to practice the concepts of 'more/less' and 'ten more/ten less' than a given number, for grades 1-4.
Tens, ones & base-ten models
Banana Bunches: Greater Than/Less Than 50 Game
This is a Banana Bunches: Greater Than/Less Than 50 Game. This is a great game to implement during your place value unit as an introduction or review for students. This is a 1 player game, so you can print game boards for all students that are playing or enough for a small group. You will print and cut the bunches of bananas. Students…
Tens, ones & base-ten models
Place Value Dice Game
Practice building and comparing three-digit numbers using place value (hundreds, tens, ones) through a dice-rolling game.
Free download Tens, ones & base-ten models
Number of the Day - 2 Digit Place Value
Give students daily practice representing a two-digit number in multiple place-value formats as a 'Number of the Day' routine.
Tens, ones & base-ten models
3rd Grade Place Value Bump Games
Two dice-based partner games practicing converting between expanded form/standard form and between word form/standard form for 4-digit numbers.
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Decimal place value
Decimal Place Value Worksheet: Swimming Times to the Hundredths
A real-world decimal place value worksheet using the times from the Women's 4x100m Freestyle relay swimming event in 2024 to practice reading, adding, and comparing decimals to the hundredths place.
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Whole numbers & expanded form
Find Me a Home! Housing Market Analysis Math Project (Grades 3-5)
A multi-day, standards-based math project where students role-play a real-estate/home-buying scenario to compare and analyze housing listings using number and place-value skills, online research, and presentation.
Whole numbers & expanded form
4th Grade Place Value Math Game Show
Provide a Jeopardy-style review game for 4th grade place value concepts, for use before an assessment or as a filler activity.
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Tens, ones & base-ten models
PILES: Sorting Activity for Place Value w/Expanded Form, Word Name and Base Ten
A card-sorting math-talk activity where students match place-value representations (expanded form, word names, standard form, base-ten models) up to the millions to deepen place-value understanding.
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Whole numbers & expanded form
US State Capitals: Place Value to Millions Activity
Give upper-elementary/intermediate students practice applying place value skills (to the millions) using the real populations of 11 U.S. state capitals.
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Whole numbers & expanded form
Place Value Loop Cards
A whole-class "loop" (Follow Me/I Have Who Has) card game for practicing place value identification in numbers up to 5 digits.
Place value in operations
Place Value & 3-Digit Addition – Math Workbook
Provide Grade 2 practice worksheets on place value (hundreds, tens, ones) and 3-digit addition/subtraction, including word problems.
Decimal place value
Decimal Numbers and their Names Card Sort Activity
Teach students to say/read decimal numbers by their correct place-value names (e.g. '.5' as 'five tenths'), up to the thousandths place, via a card sort or memory game.
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Decimal place value
Decimal Place Value Game: Tenths to Millionths
A whole-class decimal place-value game in which students try to build the largest or smallest possible decimal number as digits are randomly generated one at a time.
Place value in operations
Adding Two Digit Numbers Activity
Practice adding two-digit numbers using place value and properties of operations strategies.
Tens, ones & base-ten models
Number Draw Game
A flexible, teacher-customizable place-value game/worksheet where students 'draw' digit cards and use them to build numbers meeting stated criteria (largest/smallest, rounding, place-value conditions).
Place value in operations
Let's Go on a Trip Addition Subtraction Within 100 Activity
Practice fluently adding and subtracting within 100 using strategies based on place value and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
Place value in operations
Adding Multiples of Ten | Math Adding Multiples of 10 Place Value
Practice adding multiples of ten to two-digit numbers to build place value and mental math skills.
Tens, ones & base-ten models
Place Value Build
A hands-on small-group/center STEM activity combining base-ten block building with place value practice up to 99 or 999.
Tens, ones & base-ten models
Place Value Chart BW Units Free
Provide a reference place value chart/mat spanning units through billions for students to use during place value instruction or practice.
Whole numbers & expanded form
Compare 2 Multi-Digit Numbers Using Place Value - 4th Grade
Practice comparing two multi-digit numbers (3 to 6 digits) using place value and the symbols.
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