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Solve arithmetic problems (addition, subtraction, multiplication with fractions, decimals, and negative numbers) tied to an animal-themed digital escape room accessed via an external link (Genially).
Students click a shared link to access an external digital escape room activity (content not included in this PDF), and/or complete printed quizzes converting expanded-form sums (e.g. 40+8+0.5+0.02+0.003) into standard decimal numbers.
Students circulate to 10 stations, solving riddles that require finding 4-digit (one 3-digit) numbers meeting stated divisibility rules to open combination locks, then solve a final riddle/poem to determine the escape code.
Practice building and comparing three-digit numbers using place value (hundreds, tens, ones) through a dice-rolling game.
Students play bingo by finding called numbers or shapes on their board and marking/covering them until getting 5-in-a-row or a full board.
Flip a two-color counter or coin to determine whether to place a zero or roll a 10-sided die for a digit, place each generated digit into a place-value column on a graphic organizer to try to build the biggest or smallest number, then as a class order the resulting numbers, round them, read them aloud, and/or convert…
Continue and conclude the knight's-quest narrative through four puzzle activities (Tree Guard, Dragon Eggs, The Mirror, Ghost) plus an extra-time activity, solving multiplication/division and riddle-based puzzles (e.g. identifying multiples of 3-digit numbers) to find the final dragon.
Assemble a mini place-value book from cut/folded pages; draw playing cards to fill place-value spaces on a mat; copy the resulting number into the booklet and write it in words below (e.g. 28 = twenty-eight); trace number formation.
Students fill in numbers 1-16 in random order on a 4x4 bingo board; the teacher reads out math clues (from the provided clue sets) one at a time, and students mark the answer number on their board, aiming for a bingo.
Play a class game show: select point-value questions on a grid, answer place-value questions, and track scores on a scoreboard.
Use bingo cards with numbers 1-10 and card markers (counters/chips/stickers) to play bingo as numbers are called.
Each student holds a card stating a number and asking a place-value question about the next card (e.g., "I have 15,789. Who has 1 ten?"); students must identify the digit at the named place value on their own card and read their card aloud in turn, continuing the chain from START to END.
Student draws a set number of digit cards from a deck, writes the drawn digits into boxes, and then uses those digits to build numbers satisfying a list of prompts, e.g. 'the smallest number', 'a number less than 30,000', 'a number with a 3 in the hundreds place', 'a number that rounds to 90'.
Students are given a preprinted bingo card of 16 answers; the teacher projects/reads addition and subtraction problems one at a time and students mark the matching answer on their card until a pattern is completed.
Complete 9 different place-value activities: play teen-number games, decompose teen numbers into tens and ones (fill in 'I can make __. __ is [ ] group of 10 and [ ] ones'), build a teen number book, play a 'Cover It' board game finding called-out teen/larger numbers, roll dice and build numbers with base ten blocks…
Draw a subtraction fact card, answer it correctly to earn a die roll, and move a place marker along the game board; first to finish/blackout wins.
Free download 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.
Two players take turns rolling dice and covering the corresponding number on their own tree-shaped game board (filled with scattered numbers); first player to cover their whole tree wins.
Solve place-value number riddles (tens/ones clues), complete a picture-drawing task, and find/color pictures matching a long 'ee' vowel sound.
Two dice-based partner games practicing converting between expanded form/standard form and between word form/standard form for 4-digit numbers.
Students make their own 4x4 bingo board, fill in random pre-given answers, solve fraction addition/subtraction problems shown one at a time on the projected slides, show their work on paper, and mark matching answers until someone gets bingo.
Sort decimal-number cards under the matching place-value-name column header (or play a memory-matching game pairing number cards with name cards), then check work against the included answer key and optionally record results on a recording sheet; students can also create their own number/name pairs using blank cards.
Flip over two cards at a time to find pairs of numbers that total 10 (using tens-frame cards); keep matched pairs, and the player with the most pairs at the end wins.
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…