Getting to Know your Place Values on Interactive Whiteboards
Grades: 1-2
Summary: Here's another great game from ictgames.com. Students much choose numbers in the tens and ones digit to create the number that the dinosaurs wants.
How to Integrate: Modeled, Shared
Who doesn't love dinosaurs? The best part of this game is that students will start to recongize that 2 digit number consists of tens and ones.
2) Partitioning NumbersGrades: 2-4
Summary: ictgames.com has a fast and easy game to get students thinking place values. Students are given three choices to represent the model on the right. Start with counting the blocks and move towards knowing that each row represents 10 blocks.
How to Integrate: Modeled, Shared
It's a short activity that might not last for a full lab period but a great interactive whiteboard lesson. Have kids come up one at a time to count the blocks.
Grades: 1-3
Summary: Lessonbox has a great games to start students on the idea of base-ten blocks. Students must match the number by moving the base-ten blocks into the box. The number line on the bottom really helps show the relationship between the ten blocks and the value of the number. You can choose from two digit to three digit numbers.
How to Integrate: Modeled, Shared and Independent
I would introduce the idea of base-ten blocks with this game. Students can see the number move on the number line as you add more blocks.
4) Numbers to 1000 Grades: 3-5
Summary: hbschool.com has a great site to get students to familiarize with reading, and representing whole numbers up to 1000.
How to Integrate: Modeled, Shared and Independent
A great start or end any lesson. Students can practice their place value and recongize what the numbers look like.
Grades: 3-6
Summary: Based on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", students much identify which numeral value is asked from the word representation. It goes all the way up to thousandths.
How to Integrate: Modeled, Shared, Independent
Why not split the class into teams and play this game as a review.
