Place Value

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Place Value
By Debby

Many of my students don't seem familiar with place value either at the start of Grade 3. I use a deck of cards for a simple 5 minute game. Each group gets a deck of cards and I have a deck. Each person in the group takes
turns of course. I ask them to pick 2 cards ( face cards and tens don't count ) while I pick 2 from my deck. I ask for a number that is - the highest, the lowest, closest to 100 or smaller than 40 etc.; you can ask all kinds of questions. The object is to beat my cards. The group with the winning answer gets all the cards. You can also get each group to add up the points they got for the

game. Then record and see the winning team at the end of the week. Once they are comfortable with 2 digit numbers, the term I use, I show them how it would look on a place value mat. Then we advance to hundreds and thousands.
Also the game Race to 1000 can be downsized to Race to 100 or you can play "Clear the Mat" which is where you start at 100 and go down to 0. These are great for adding and subtracting skills. Have fun!