Place Value Game
Learning target: reinforce place value concept
Supplies: small whiteboard or paper and pencil for each student
Instructions for facilitator:
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Have students make 4 dashes on their whiteboard
Explain where the thousands, hundreds, tens and ones place was.
Then I call out numbers (such as):
eight tens, four thousands, six ones, and two hundreds.
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Students each write the number where they think it belongs and then group compares them.
Extensions:
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Give every child a chip for a number in the right place. Play it a few times, and then add up the total
number of chips.
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Now estimate the number to the nearest _______.
Use with decimals (tenths, hundredths, thousandths, etc.)
Add or multiply two numbers.
Estimate the sum or product using mental math by decomposing the numbers.
Submitted by: Carol Eldon