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Place Value Math Games

Place Value

Math Games

Place Value

Math Games

Place Value Comparisons (Grades 2 +)

Place Value Snap (Grades 3-6)

Skills: comparing numbers, odd and even

Skills: place values 1-100, immediate recall

Players: 2 or more

Players: 2

Materials: cards (Ace=1)-9, die

Materials: cards (Ace=1)-9

Procedure:

1) Place deck face down.

1) Two players sit side by side and deal the deck

2) Each player turns over 2 cards and makes a

out evenly.

2 digit number.

2) At the same time, each player turns over one

3) The die is rolled by one player. If the roll is

card. One player is assigned the tens number,

even, the bigger number scores. If it is odd,

the other is the ones number.

the smaller number scores.

3) The player who names the correct number

4) Students record their numbers and scores.

first (ie. five card, tens number and seven

5) The first player to score ten points wins.

card, ones number is fifty-seven).

Variation: Add more cards for more digits.

4) Play continues until one player has collected

all of the cards.

Place Value or Comparing War (Grades 2-6)

5) If there is a tie, players leave their cards in a

Skills: comparing, place values

“tie pile.” The pile builds until one player gives

Players: 2

a correct answer before the other and takes

Materials: cards (Ace=1)-9

all of the cards in the tie pile plus the two

Procedure:

cards just turned over.

1) Deal out the cards evenly.

Variation: Play with more cards and build larger

2) Each player turns over 2 cards. The first

numbers.

number turned over is the tens and the

second number is the ones.

You Take the High Road (Grades 3 +)

3) Both players call out or write down their

Skills: four digit place value, comparing numbers

numbers. (six tens and two ones equals sixty-

Players: 2

two)

Materials: cards (Ace=1)-9, die, paper, pencil

4) The player with the largest number gets all the

Procedure:

cards.

1) One player rolls the die to determine if

5) If there is a tie, WAR is declared. Each

players will build the smallest or largest

player will then place three more cards face

number. (odd roll=smallest number, even

down and then turn over two more cards and

number=largest number)

adds this second number to the first. The

2) Players then draw four cards each and make

player with the largest sum gets all of the

their numbers.

cards.

3) Players then verbalize their number to their

6) Play continues until one player has collected

opponent and record their number.

all of the cards.

4) Players compare numbers. The player with the

Variation: Players turn over more cards to build

largest/smallest number scores a point.

larger numbers through the hundreds or thousands.

5) Players continue to alternate turns until a set

number of points is reached. (10-20)

Variation: Play with larger groups. Challenge players

to use six cards for numbers through the 100,000’s.

Place Value Game Worksheet

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