fun game for place value

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fun game for place value
By stacey

This week I have been teaching place value to my third grade students. They played a game called Race to a Thousand and had a blast. It goes something like this.... I divided them up in groups of six, but you can do 2 to
however many you are comfortable with. They each need a place value mat (which my students made themselves) up to the thousands place. Each group needs 2 dice and ones, tens, and hundred blocks. Each student takes turns rolling the dice and choosing the number they wish to create from the 2 dice. For example, if they roll a 4 and a 2, they would want to make it 24 or 42, but since the object

is to get to a 1000 first, they choose the larger #, then display that # on their mat, record the answer on the back of the mat and continue with the next person. When it is the same student's turn again, they add the next # they roll to the previous one and keep building from there until someone reaches 1000. This also helped them with addition and lining up the #s in the correct position. You could use 3 dice if you wanted the game to go really quick. Hope this helps.