Place Value

Heather Beck

Chip-Trading Games • White chips = ones• Blue chips = tens• Red chips = hundreds

• Roll a die and receive the number of ones indicated on the die

• Exchange for higher valued chips • First player to get a chip of a certain high

value wins

Bank Game• Use a game board to help students understand place

value.

Making Columns • F – Find the columns • I – Insert the ts• N – Name the columns • D – Determine the numbers of hundreds, tens, and ones

Labeling Columns • Insert the initial letters for ones, tens, hundreds, and so

on over their respective columns:

T th th h t o

413

573

451

761

Pegboard• Use a pegboard to teach borrowing and carrying. • Use masking tape to divide the pegboard into three rows

and three columns with nine holes in each square • Draw an arrow from right to left on a piece of tape that

separates the bottom third. (the equals sign)

Place Value Cards • Make cards with numbers on one side and tallies for the

number of tens, hundreds, and so on in that number on the other side.

• Strings can be attached to the cards for stringing beads to represent the number in each column.

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Front Back

Place Value Table • Instruct the student to complete the missing spaces in

the place value table.

100 10 1 1 10 100Less Less Less Greater Greater Greater

178 278 279

141 142 152

359 369 469

420 520

400 401 402