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How to Understand Place Value: 3 Fun Family Math Activities | Motion Math. How to Understand Place Value: 3 Fun Family Math Activities “Recent research has shown that place value remains difficult in third and fourth grade, in spite of the fact that it is taught repeatedly in every primary grade.” –Constance Kamii Why is place value so important and so challenging for learners? If students have a weak understanding of place value, a critical concept for all other math concepts, they have a difficult time understanding decimals and may assume the number of digits means that a number is larger. Knock, Knock! Each player gets four cards, with each card representing a place value (hundredths, tenths, ones, tens places).

Variations of this math game • Two winners: To add some place value addition to this game, players can add up all of the hands they’ve played through the game. Place Value Hangman You need: a deck of cards, a chalkboard, whiteboard, or large piece of paper. Split into even teams. Motion Math Zoom, our interactive number line for place value! Place Value Activities. Hands-activities-teaching-place-value. Moodle. ← Blog home Place value is a key mathematics concept for students to learn. The concept that numbers can be broken apart and put back together gives students a more solid understanding of how different operations work. Knowing when to exchange groups of units (ones) for tens, how to handle a zero in the hundreds place when subtracting, or correctly recording numerals in a quotient, for example, can be confusing for many students. The Math-U-See presentation of place value using Decimal Street and our color-coded pieces for units, tens, and hundreds helps students develop an authentic understanding of place value by helping them construct meaning through visual representations and hands-on practice.

Try supplementing and reinforcing the concept of place value with your Math-U-See curriculum with the following activities: Place Value Activities Build a Number Materials: • Integer Blocks • Decimal Street™ poster • Paper and pencil Digit Swap Listen for the Number Remodel the Number. Place Value Activities. Number Line-Up This activity is designed to actively involve students in using place value concepts to build numbers.

Objective: LWDAT use place value to form 3-6 digit numbers to satisfy different conditions. Materials: Demo digit cards, one set for class use Small digit cards, one set for each student Directions: Select 3-6 students and give each student one of the demo digit cards. Each student selected moves to the front of the classroom and holds the demo digit card in front of them so that classmates can easily see the numeral. Build a Number Identify the digits students will use by handing demo digit cards to selected students (e.g. 3, 5, 8). Decimal Build a Number: Hand out the decimal point demo card as well as several digit cards to students. Place Value Games Games provided extended place value practice for students and allow them to use their conceptual understanding to develop appropriate strategies to win the game.

Online directions for High-Number Toss Game Download Play. Place Value Activities for Kids. In this set of activities adaptable for grades K-3, parents and educators will find ideas for teaching about place value. These activities are designed to complement the BrainPOP Jr. Place Value topic page, which includes a movie, quizzes, online games, printable activities, and more. Classroom Activities for Teaching Place Value Place Value Bingo Make bingo cards using different numbers. You may want students to make their own bingo cards using one-, two-, or three-digit numbers and then have them swap cards with other students. Bean Bag Number Toss Take 10 separate pieces of paper and label them each from 0 to 9. Number Clues Model a number story for your students, such as “There are 7 tens, 1 one, and 9 hundreds.” Roll to 100 Students work in pairs to play this collaborative game. Family and Homeschool Activities for Teaching Place Value Number Hunt Take a walk with your child around the neighborhood.

Hat Trick Base Ten Strips Make your own manipulatives with your child at home. Ali Welge. Chapter 10 Presentation Summary. Place Value Numbers Up to 1,000 in Second Grade. Share on Facebook0 shares on Facebook Share on StumbleUpon0 shares on StumbleUpon In Unit 2 of the 2nd Grade Math Made Fun Curriculum, we focus on place value to 1,000.

Teaching place value (the value of where the digit is in the number, based on the location of the digit) plays a very important roll in understanding addition and subtraction with regrouping. As we provide students with a hands-on approach to learning place value, they are able to transfer that knowledge into addition and subtraction. In this place value unit, the idea of regrouping and memorizing steps is NOT the focus. We will focus more on these steps in Units 3 and 4. In this math unit on place value to 1,000, students will learn to: *Determine the value of numbers in the ones, tens, or hundreds place *Count and show numbers within 1,000 in base ten *Show and read numbers within 1,000 in base ten *Compare numbers within 1,000 using <, > or = *Mentally add and subtract 10 and 100 from numbers within 1,000 Unit 7: Time.