Place Value

In Math these past few weeks with Ms Elder, we have been learning about the concept of Number. We have been practicing place value and Number vocabulary by: building numbers with Base Ten blocks, playing Place Value games, and doing Number Riddles.

Here are a few games we can play at home to practice:

Number Riddles

Materials: whiteboard (optional)

Instructions: 

1) One person thinks of a number (we practiced 3-digit).

2) Player 2 asks questions to get clues. Use Place Value vocabulary like: greater than, less than, odd, even, the digit in the ones/tens/hundreds place...

3) Player 1 tells them when they guess it right!

Trading Places

Materials: one set of dominoes, mat (optional)

Instructions: 

1) Flip all the dominoes upside down and shuffle.

2) Player 1 picks a domino. Choose which Place Value column you want to put that number in. Once your domino is placed, it cannot be moved.

3) Player 2 picks a domino. Repeat.

4) Player 1 picks a domino. They choose which way to put it in the Place Value columns that are left.

5) Player 2 picks a domino. Repeat.

6) Whomever has the greater number wins! You must be able to read your number out loud.

Place Value Race

Materials: one deck of cards

Instructions: 

1) Play with 2 players. Remove the 10's, Jack's, Queen's, and Kings, and Jokers. Shuffle.

2) Each player flips 2 cards over at the same time.

3) The first person to say the number out loud correctly keeps the cards. When you're finished the stack, the person with the most cards wins!

Banker's Game

Materials: one set of Base Ten blocks (could be printed or use coins), 2 dice of different colours, 1 place value mat (optional)

Instructions: 

1) Decide which colour of dice are for which place value column.

2) Player 1 rolls 2 dice. They collect the Base Ten blocks of that number.

3) Player 2 repeats.

4) Regroup when you can!

5) The first person to get to 100, wins!

Here are some pictures of us playing the Banker's Game!

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Option: Play with 3 dice all the way to 1 000!