Middle School Math Stations or Centers: Large and Small Place Value
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This ready-to-print set of 5 stations or math centres will supplement a middle school geometry unit about place value: including numbers from the hundred millions to the millionths. I have included lots of real-life examples such as populations of countries around the world and actual Olympic luge results that are measured to the thousandth of a second.
Math stations are an excellent way to get students engaged as they move about the room and work cooperatively with their peers. Even when students are in intermediate grades, they benefit from a variety of teaching strategies including the use of stations to make math class more interactive.
Station 1: Students can work collaboratively to solve four word problems about place value.
(optional: set out white boards for students to use)
Station 2: Students explore decimal place value to the millionths with a random number generating dice game.
(supplies needed: 2-sided counter or coin AND a 10-sided die to generate numbers)
Station 3: Students explore the populations of countries to practice place value skills such as rounding, expanded form, and comparing large numbers.
(supplies needed: access to the internet to find the populations)
Station 4: Students compare real times (measured to the thousandths) from the men’s luge at the 2018 Winter Olympics. They identify and compare different decimal place values.
Station 5: Students explain their mathematical thinking in words and pictures to answer a math journal prompt.
(supplies needed: tablets or computers for online game extension)
***Answer Key Included***
Grades to Use With: These stations are designed for middle grades students (grades 5-7) or high school special education classrooms.
If you enjoy these math stations, check out the others in my store for your middle school math class:
Adding and Subtracting Integers
Area, Perimeter, and Volume (right-angle shapes)
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