Place Value Class Book

This idea is from the blog Crayon Bits. She does a great job showing how she makes a class book after each math unit using the vocabulary. I will definitely have to do this for our place value unit!

Using Beads and Pipe Cleaners for Place Value

Here is an interesting way to reinforce tens and ones using beads. I will admit, I love my Unifix cubes, but I am always looking for a variety of math tools to teach concepts. Hop over to Mrs. T's First Grade Class and take a peek.

Place Value Mystery Cards

This activity is from the blog First Grade Parade.. Students have to figure out how many tens and ones are on each card. They then color the number on a hundreds chart to revel the mystery picture. What child can resist a mystery picture?!

Place Value Scoot

Here is another idea from the blog Swamp Frog First Graders.  This activity is a great way to get kids moving and thinking about place value.

Place Value Letters

Check out this activity from Mrs. T's First Grade Class. The children make there first initial of their name using tens and ones.

Brain Chains

Check out this great video by Teacher Tipster to help children with place value. Brain Chains are a great idea for calendar time, but I was also thinking they would be fun to make for the 100th day of school.

What Number Am I? Place Value Riddles

This is another great resource posted from Dr. Nicki's blog. It is from the Courseware Solutions website. These riddles would work well in a small group lesson.

Learning With Mrs. Parker: Instant Math Center Using Puzzles

Learning With Mrs. Parker: Instant Math Center Using Puzzles

Number Sense-Subitizing-Place Value

Check out this great site called Mathematically Minded (Thanks, Jill!).  They have some wonderful resources for subitizing and place value.  Even though this is a company that is selling products, they have offered some valuable resources for free.

Place Value-Mini Tutorial on Using Base Ten Blocks

This site actually has a mini tutorial for showing children how to use base ten blocks to make numbers and add/subtract.

Place Value

My team and I have been reading the book Math Workstations by Debbie Diller.  There are quite a few excellent activities for teaching place value in her book.  On Friday we had a "Tens Tools" day (this idea came from my teammate, Kim).  I used different materials (straws and rubber bands, beans and cups, unifix cubes, centimeter rods...) to set up 7 stations around the room.  The children traveled in groups of threes.  Once the children were at a station, everyone in the room made the same number using their tens tools.  Each station also had three tens and ones place value mats.  After the children made the number, they had to tell their friends at the station  "I have____groups of tens and ____extra ones, which equals _______."  (This math language idea can be credited to Debbie Diller).  It really helped to have this sentence written on the card for the children to reference.  I buzzed around the room to listen in briefly at each group.  Then the children were instructed to clean up, stand up, and move to the next station.  The children really loved it and had the opportunity to use seven different types of tens tools to make numbers.