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Title: Math: Place Value
Description: These sites focus on place value and cover basic concepts and place value charts. Includes many interactive games and quizzes. There are also some activity ideas and video clips.
Grade Level: 2, 3, 4
Resource Links: All about Place Values
Explore these links on place values. Each topic has a description of the concept followed by an interactive game. NOTE: This site has banner ads.

Game of Place Value
This activity uses a deck of cards to have students create numbers.

Basic Number
Learn more about the importance of place values in this lively presentation. NOTE: The "Talk" link leads to message boards.

Jefferson Lab
Play this game and try to create the largest number from the values you are given.

Quia: Place Value Playoff!
Choose among these four interactive online games and practice your place value skills.

Space Chase Place Value
Print out the spinner and play this game about place value.

Step by Step
Use this digital counter to teach students about place value. The clock can be started, stopped, and reset. NOTE: This site has pop-up and banner ads.

For Real
Watch this video about a girl who has to devise a way to count all the runners in a marathon. Her solution involves place value. NOTE: Requires RealPlayer.

Number Sense
Play this game and try to come up with a number larger than the one given. Notice the importance of place value when comparing numbers.

Math Steps
Read some ideas about how to teach students about place value.

ABC Teach
This site includes a place value chart and some basic exercises you can print out. NOTE: The site includes ads.

Mysterious Numbers
Use your place value knowledge to solve the math riddles. NOTE: The site leads to a website with discussion boards.

Fruity Place Value
This is a fun activity idea about place value and rounding. NOTE: The site includes ads. The site leads to a website with discussion boards.

Place Value K-3
This site has five activity ideas about place value.

Base 10 Blocks
This is an interactive model for teaching place value up to hundreds. Read the instructions before you begin.

Math Cat
Think of a number, type it in and say it out loud, then find out how to write the number. The game does not allow you to use decimal points.

Place Value Puzzler
There are two ways to play this interactive game. You can click on the "Choose Place Value" game to be quizzed on which number is in a certain place value or click on "Rounding" to try rounding numbers to certain place values. You can also try the different difficulty levels. NOTE: This site has pop-up and banner ads.

Place Value Class Activity
This is a hands-on activity that helps students physically see what place value means. Scroll to the bottom of the page to read the place value rap.

Home Work for Kids
Print out this page and learn how using visuals can help students learning with place value.

Home Work for Kids
Here is a worksheet to help students practice place value.

The Concept and Teaching of Place-Value
This site provides information for teachers on presenting place-value in a way to helps students better understand the concept.

Lesson Exchange: Place Value Game
This lesson plan provides a class activity that can be used with kids from first through six grades. NOTE: The site includes ads and a chat forum.

Place Value
This site provides help for teachers on how to teach kids to place values. Includes practice worksheets. NOTE: The site includes ads.

Math Worksheets: Place Value
Click on the thumbnails of the worksheets to enlarge them. They can be printed out for students to practice placing values. NOTE: This site has pop-up and banner ads.

Place Value to 100,000
This site has an interactive place-value chart to practice finding the value of each digit in a number.

Place Value Illustration
Watch an interactive illustration about place value. Learn how place value works for whole numbers and decimal numbers. Includes activities to practice place value skills.

Education Standards: MO Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 1, 5


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Reviewed December 7, 2004.

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