5 Actions for Educating Place Worth

I am again with an all new “5 Actions for Educating” publish (click on the hyperlink for extra 5 Exercise Concepts).  This one is all about Place Worth.  Like a lot of you, I all the time like to begin my math yr with Place Worth.  This publish goals to take you previous the normal hands-on actions that college students want like constructing and exchanging numbers utilizing base 10 blocks, and hopefully offers you some new concepts so as to add to your assortment.

1.  Interactive Math Journals – I all the time wish to introduce new math ideas with an entry or two in our Interactive Math Journals.  I’ve received some enjoyable concepts right here on my weblog you can learn some extra about.  This one is from my unique Interactive Math Journal.  College students determine the place worth column of the highlighted digit.  You may see it HERE.

One other math journal concept is from my Interactive Math Journal 2.  This one has college students figuring out the place worth columns from billions all the way in which as much as the billions column.  You may learn extra about it HERE.

2.  Cup-Stacking Place Worth Recreation – This one is SO a lot enjoyable!  You want styrofoam cups (or any cups with a lip so you may write a digit on the lip).  Label every cup with a digit from 0-9 (I used a sharpie for this, and I wrote the digit on either side of the lip).  Repeat for the variety of cups you’ve.  The variety of cups you want rely upon the variety of college students enjoying, and the way excessive you want your numbers to go.  For a bunch of three, enjoying to the hundred hundreds, you have to 18 cups.  (I purchased a pack of 20 on the greenback retailer).  To work with numbers within the billions, college students would construct a pyramid with 10 cups.

Unfold the cups out and have your college students seated round them.  

As shortly as they will they should stack 6 random cups in a pyramid, then collapse the pyramid in order that they have a stack of 6 cups.  The primary particular person to learn the 6 digit quantity the stack makes, wins.  To get all collaborating and maintain the motivation going, you may give the primary particular person 2 factors, and everybody else within the group that reads their quantity accurately 1 level.  Or, you may merely make this a math station with none factors in any respect.  🙂  Take a peek at this video to see how we play it.

3.  Math Stations – Cube, playing cards, dominos … all of those manipulatives are nice for constructing numbers to have college students work with place worth.  I’ve a enjoyable package deal of math station sheets for place worth that use cube – entire numbers and decimals are included (US and Canadian variations are each included within the useful resource).  With this Rolling Place Worth useful resource, college students can be working with customary, written, and expanded type of numbers.

To make use of much less paper, I purchased these nice dry-erase pockets at Amazon.  LOVE them.  Simply slide the sheet inside, and let the scholars work.  I will embrace an affiliate hyperlink to Amazon on the backside of this publish.  If you wish to take a peek at this Rolling Place Worth Useful resource, click on HERE.

I even have an identical useful resource for rounding – together with numbers from hundreds of thousands to thousandths on particular person sheets so you may simply differentiate in your college students.  College students may also examine and order the numbers they made.  To see this Rolling with Rounding Useful resource, click on HERE.  Every of those two “rolling” assets embrace an additional web page that college students can full and hand in for a formative evaluation.

4.  Place Worth Scavenger Hunt – I’ve received a enjoyable little freebie to share with you.  This Place Worth Scavenger Hunt has college students looking for numbers – across the college, in a newspaper or journal, on-line … wherever you select to have your college students look.  I am planning on having my college students work in teams, giving every group an iPad.  After they discover one of many numbers on their scavenger hunt, they will take an image of it on the iPad.  On the finish of the exercise, they’ll undergo their gallery, displaying the 15 photos.  To seize a free copy in your classroom, simply click on HERE.

5.  Place Worth Math Circle – This Place Worth math circle is all the time successful in my classroom as a result of it will get us up and transferring, and actually exploring numbers.  It’s particularly useful for the kinesthetic learners within the classroom.  This math circle is much like my drama circles in that everybody will get a card with a path to comply with.  Every pupil is given a digit from 0-9, there’s a decimal for somebody to put on as nicely.  As soon as everyone seems to be sporting their digit, the primary particular person reads the instruction on the cardboard and builds the quantity utilizing individuals within the class.  For instance, within the image under, the cardboard stated, “Use 5 individuals to construct a quantity with a 2 within the ten hundreds place, 4 within the hundreds place, 9 within the lots of place, 6 within the tens place, and three within the ones place.  Learn the quantity aloud.”  I’ve each a US model and a Canadian model out there.

And that is about that.  What are a few of your finest tried-and-true place worth actions within the classroom?  Go away a remark under explaining all about it.