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Place value activity
By Barb

Hi,

I am teaching a summer school right now and another teacher shared an idea with me for working with place value. Its done as a group activity, on the board or an overhead. You draw spaces for a number (kind of like
for hangman...i.e. _ _ _, _ _ _ for 100 thousand) Then have them identify what the place values are (ones, tens, hundreds, etc...) up to a million or more depending on what you want them to work on. Then, have cards with the numbers 0-9 on them and students can take turns choosing a card from the "deck" and deciding where to put it to try to get the largest number possible (or the smallest

#) As the student decides, either the class or that student has to say what place value they are putting their number in. When they get the final number, they read it off correctly and then determine if it was the largest one or not and other possible numbers they could have had with those digits.

My students really got excited about it and had fun with the challenge to make the biggest number.

Hope this idea is one you can use
Barb