Place Value Wheels
• In third grade, students need to know
place value to the thousands place.
• The next page has a three digit placevalue wheel. Give students various
prompts, such as:
– Numbers written in word form
– Numbers written in expanded form
– Show the number that is “10 more” or
“100 more” than a given number
• When you want to introduce thousands,
put two place value wheels side-to-side.
You can remove wheels to the left of the
thousands place.
• It’s good for students to see the digits in
“periods.” Period is the word used to
describe the three digits separated by
columns.
Hundred
Ten
Digit Wheels for Place Value, Gayle Cloke,
gacloke@weber.k12.ut.us
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