Kids-love-to-play-games and that's why this place value game is one that your students will beg you to play!
For a ton of first grade place value activities, resources, and fun ideas - keep scrolling down! Unless, of course, you want to read about ...
A place value Cheerio tower? Genius!
If your kids struggle to add large numbers, these place value mazes will provide some much needed support. They're simple, low prep and fun for kids!
The best way to make learning place value fun for students? Turn it into a game, of course! From first through third grade, it’s the time to get down
Today I am going to share one of my favorite activities for place value to practice this skill and it is a big hit with kids. It's called Place Value Toss!
A place value Cheerio tower? Genius!
Learn how to play this fun place value game and download your free Place Value Yahtzee score sheets.
"My kids love Place Value Yahtzee! Learn how to play this fun place value game and download your free Place Value Yahtzee score sheets. Great for grades 2-6!" "The game that I have for you today is a place value version of the popular game Yahtzee. I've included the score sheets for four different versions (3-digit numbers, 4-digit numbers, 6-digit numbers, and decimals) so that you can choose the level that works best for your classroom. You could even assign different levels to different students... such easy differentiation!"
Place Value Partners is a place value game for math centers, cooperative learning partners, small guided math groups, or even whole class instruction. The concept is similar to the game Battleship with partners facing each other across a barrier. Instead of ships and a grid, they have a place value game board and number tiles
Learn how to play this fun place value game and download your free Place Value Yahtzee score sheets.
Looking for a low prep place value game? This printable place value pirates game set will strengthen kids' understanding and also challenge them.
My 2014-2015 Highlights list would not be complete without sharing our highlights from math this past year. It involves a lot of great hands-on math ideas, so I hope you enjoy!
How to Teach Place Value When teaching place value, I always have a few friends that have a difficult time representing a two-digit number using drawings or
If your learner are working on place value, these NO PREP Place Value Games will be a hit! Find more No Prep Math Games in this series. *This post contains affiliate links. **The free printable downloads can be found at the END of this post. Click on the teal download button. No Prep Place Value ... Read More about No Prep Place Value Games: Roll & Cover
Objectives: Learning and practising regrouping Print examples of regrouping in student math journals Learn term names: minuend take away subtrahend equals difference/answer (for subtraction) and addend plus addend equals sum/answer (for addition) Materials for each group … View Full Lesson →
Place value, teen numbers and ten and some more are all concepts that can be a bit challenging for our students. But when you use giant base ten manipulatives, it makes a challenging skill a …
KINDERGARTEN MATH - TEEN NUMBERS AND PLACE VALUE We have come so far in kindergarten math this year! My sweet kinders now have 1:1 correspondence down, they can write and recognize numerals 1-10, we covered geometry, measurement and data…. so now we are tackling those tricky teens and place valu
Use partner games to make practicing place value with your students easier, less time-consuming, and less stressful!
I love incorporating games into math as much as possible. Who doesn't love playing games, right?! But the problem with games is that they often require quite a bit of prep work for us teachers. I've been trying to come up with some that require little to no preparation to use. I'm so excited to
5 Fun Hands-On Activities for Teaching Place Value that your students will LOVE!
In kindergarten, students begin to learn about place value by decomposing numbers into 10 and some ones. In first grade, students transition to decomposing
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Learn how to play this fun place value game and download your free Place Value Yahtzee score sheets.
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A place value Cheerio tower? Genius!
Math games are always a class favorite! They're great for centers, homework practice, and small groups. This set of games includes five monkey-themed math games that your kids will love! They might even go bananas for it (tehehe)! Doubles, place value, addition, and more. Each game comes in color and black & white. You can grab them HERE. I hope your kids love them!
Building a strong number sense is the foundation of most math applications. It's important for our students to know what numbers repres...
Place Value Bootcamp is a high-energy and challenging way to 'hook' your young mathematicians. This is my third year doing Bootcamp and every years it looks different! While doing calendar, I told my
Turn the classic game of Twister into a fun and easy math game! A great way to get kids moving and practicing important math facts at the same time!
A place value Cheerio tower? Genius!
Tweet Today I am joining some great math teacher bloggers to bring you a new series of blog hops: Fly on the Math Teacher's Wall. These blog posts will be all about SQUASHING teacher, student and parent misconceptions. They will give you a look inside math teachers classrooms and help you find new ideas and understandings across the grade levels. Today we are talking about place value. Today I want to talk about decimals. I feel like teachers have gotten pretty good at using manipulatives with young students first learning about place value. However, I think there is a huge misconception that older kids learning decimals don't need as much hands on practice with models to develop their understanding. I would like to SQUASH that misconception and share with you 6 different models for learning decimals. Moving between these models will give your students the hands on experience they need while helping them to see how decimals are used in the world around us. Base 10 Blocks This is by far the most popular way for teachers to introduce decimals. I use these myself when working on decimals with kids. In fourth grade, when I first introduce decimals, I make a big production of using the document camera to "zoom in" on one of the units. I tell kids I am getting really really close. While doing this the camera goes out of focus a big and I trade the unit (1) for the mat (100). I tell them that when you get really close to the unit, you can see it is really broken into 100 pieces. Of course they know right away that I traded pieces because it is usually very obvious. However, this is where we reestablish that the mat which in the past has been worth 100 is now worth just one. This means the strip which was formerly 10 is now worth a tenth and so on. It takes kids a few tries to adjust to this way of thinking but they eventually do. If you are looking to extend this or don't have a class set of base 10 blocks handy, I would recommend checking out this applet on the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives. (You need Java for it to run) Money This is often the most useful connection for students between decimals and real life. By the time kids learn about decimals, they have often had some real life experiences with money and have a much better understanding of decimals when they are in a money context or written to the thousandths place. If you ask a fourth grader who is just starting out with decimals if 1.8 or 1.09 is larger, they may or may not be able to answer it correctly. If you ask them which is more money $1.80 or $1.09 they will probably think that is an easy question. Connecting tenths and hundredths to dimes and pennies is one of the best ways to build on students prior understanding and help them construct new knowledge. I like to make the connection between money and base 10 blocks explicit with these money value pieces from the Math Learning Center. Meter Stick(s) An model that is often overlooked in math classes for teaching decimals and other kinds of numbers is number lines. I find teachers are spending more time modeling number lines in the lower grades now but it is still often something that is missing from decimal units. Number lines are a great way to help kids think about ordering and comparing numbers. They also make a great conversation starter to talk with kids about the density of numbers. Asking questions such as "how many numbers are between 1.2 and 1.3" get at the idea that the numbers are infinite. A meter stick is perfect for this kind of activity because it is already split into hundredths. You can read more about how I use meter sticks for decimal number lines here. Exploring the idea of density of decimals on a meter stick number line 100 Bead String I use 100 bead strings for a huge variety of activities around counting, place value, decimals and percents. They are easy to make and cost under $1 each so I make sure I always have plenty on hand. They make a great number line because like the meter stick they are already broken into hundredths. They also switch color every ten beads so the tenths are also easy to see. There are no numbers written on the model to start with so it is a little bit different than the meter stick. Read more about how I use the 100 bead string for decimals here. Decimal Arrow Cards I love arrow cards for teaching place value and find them to be a vital tool to use in K-3 to work on numbers up to 10,000. If kids are already familiar with arrow cards from younger grades, these are a super easy way to extend their understanding to the right of the decimal point. If your kids haven't used them in previous grades it will only take you part of a class period to get them familiar with them on the whole number side and you will be ready to use them with decimals in no time. You can grab a free set of printable arrow cards here and the decimal version is available here. To read more about how I use arrow cards with kids, check out this post! Digit Blocks I first heard of Digi Blocks last fall and was very intrigued by the implications for place value. I received a small collection of them from a colleague and have used them a great deal with intervention kids. I recently watched a colleague at another school use decimal digi blocks and was super impressed with how well the kids understood place value. They are one of the more expensive manipulatives but have actual pieces for tenths and hundredths. You can read more about my first impression of digi blocks or head over to their website to learn more. When your kids are ready to move on from direct modeling, I highly recommend number talks. This book is full of ready to go number talks for decimals. You know I love math picture books, my favorites for teaching decimals are Fractions, Decimals and Percents by David Alder and Little Numbers by Edward Packard One of my favorite decimal activities are these fall themed decimal task cards! Head over to Beyond Traditional Math to see what she has to say about teaching place value!
Learn how to play this fun place value game and download your free Place Value Yahtzee score sheets.
Increase student engagement with place value task cards. Includes printable version and the digital version (BOOM cards) depending on your classroom.
These fun math games are perfect for making math seem more like fun and less like work! Great for at home fun, classrooms, and more!
Looking for a fun and tasty math challenge? Try these FREE Skittles math place value mats to explore large numbers and decimals with your kids.
UNO cards are such a fun resource to use in your math lessons! Make life simple with these ready to print templates to help your students use UNO cards to build their number skills. This is version 1, find this resource and version 2 in our money-saving BUNDLE. Perfect to use in your Grade 3 or Grade 4 classroom as Math centers, fast finisher games or small group tasks - your students are going to LOVE these games! Looking for another grade? Kindergarten / Pre K Grade 1-2 Grade 5-6 Included in this resource pack are a variety of templates you can use with UNO cards, including options to easily differentiate for your students. An editable version is included so you can translate into any language. What is included: Make a Number (3 versions ) *print A3 size + Number strips Number Skills task cards + Number of the Day Greater than and less than Place Value Wars (3 versions) Make a number cards Twenty-one Addition fluency template 2-Digit Addition template Subtraction fluency template 2-Digit Subtraction template Multiplication Fluency + recording template Multiplication 2-digit & single digit template Highest Total game board Backwards tables game ❤️ What teachers say about this resource: ❤️ “I use these during Math stations and in small groups. The students LOVE working with Uno cards and this resources is so engaging! Highly recommend!” Jennifer “This is an incredible resource! The students love using this resource during our math review game time. They are engaged. It did not take much to prepare this resource.” Carel “My students love this hands-on and engaging math center! It's also a great activity for early finishers to strengthen math skills-- specifically multiplication! Love it!” Mammoth Creek Classroom “My students can not stop raving about these uno mats. This is all they seem to want to do in small groups now. I had to incorporate it as one of my math fluency stations. Thank you so much! This resource is a gem!” Jeanitra “I am incredibly grateful for stumbling upon this teaching resource! As a teacher preparing for the new school year, it has been an invaluable resource in shaping my curriculum. Thank you for sharing your expertise and creative brilliance” Jennifer “I LOVE these games and am so glad to have them in my classroom. Who knew kids are so obsessed with Uno cards? These centers have been such a hit.” Sarah We are passionate about helping teachers here at Rainbow Sky Creations. We hope you and your students enjoy these resources Before you go, follow us and be notified when new products are uploaded. New products are always 50% off for the first 24 hours they are posted! Thanks for visiting! **************************************************** Terms of Use: Copyright of this material is reserved in accordance with the Copyright Act 1968. This purchase is for single classroom/home use only. Additional reproduction of part or all of this resource is prohibited without the written authority of Rainbow Sky Creations. All content and clipart in these files have been created by Rainbow Sky Creations and therefore remain the property of Rainbow Sky Creations. **************************************************** Contact: If you have any feedback, queries, or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us via the online form or at [email protected] If you love this resource, we would LOVE you to leave us some feedback! **************************************************** Follow us on Facebook or Instagram or TikTok or Pinterest for more teaching resources and inspiration!
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