Spinning Place Value -- Place Value Freebie

Here's another quick place value activity for a math station.

You need a numbered spinner, place value blocks, paper, and pencil.

Students spin the spinner three times to make a number. They use the place value blocks to model the number. Once they have made a model of the number, they draw it in a graphic organizer and add the standard, word, and expanded forms of the number. You can use the example I included or let students come up with their own way to record the info. This would also be a good activity to show understanding of different ways of representing numbers in a math journal.

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Bundle It Up! -- Place Value Freebie

Common Core requires second graders to realize that ten bundles of ten make one hundred. This is going to be an activity in one of my place value math stations next week. Gather up lots of popsicle sticks and rubber bands, a die, and print off the number cards. Students draw a card to determine the target number. They take turns rolling the die and draw that many sticks. When they get ten sticks, they use a rubber band to bundle them. The first person to reach the target number wins the game.

It's a quick game that you can also play with tables or small groups competing against each other.

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Last Man Standing - Freebie

Need a fun review for place value? My kids love, love, love playing this game.

Hand out the number cards to each child. Give clues based on place value. If the number doesn't match the clue, the child must sit down. The last one standing is the winner. It's great practice for interpreting place value and is even better when the kids are ready to give the clues!

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Diggin' Some Facts -- Freebie

Slip in some practice on basic facts and operations on a little higher level with this activity on choosing the correct operation to make the number expression true.

I'll be diggin' your comments, so please leave some!