Place Value Charts
01-08-2008, 06:41 PM
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Place Value Charts: To make this chart, use 18" x 12" construction paper or legal sized paper. Mark the paper into columns for millions, hundred thousands, ten thousands, thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones. Do not write the words in the columns, but rather, make headers that the students must place in the correct column so they can build the chart on their own. (I have found students understand place value so much better when they understand what each place represents. However, they do not learn this unless asked to label the columns.)
Play this game as partners: Use a deck of cards (ace equals one and throw out the face cards). Place these upside down in a pile on the desk. The object of the game is to draw one card at a time and build the largest/smallest number...teacher decides the rules. Partner one draws a card and places it on his/her board. Partner two draws a card and places it on his/her board. Place continues until all the columns are fulled. The winner is the child with the smallest/largest number who can correctly say the number.
Have your students practice writing the meaning of large numbers in expanded form...2,590 = 2,000 + 500 + 90 + 0. (It is just like expanding a sentence!!) Then ask the value of each digit. The 2 = 2,000, the 5 = 500, etc. (Students who have difficulty with place value think the 2 = 2.)
Have your students build numbers using place value blocks...and after lots of practice doing this, have them draw numbers using place value shorthand. Shorthand: ones are a small square, tens are a rod (just like the place value block), hundreds are a larger square, and thousands are a large cube (or square with a right angle in the lower right hand corner).
Dictate numbers. (In Everyday Math, there is a chart that has blanks.) It looks like this:
____ , ____ ____ ____ , ____ ____ ____
Under the first comma, the word millions is written, and under the second comma, the word thousands is written. When you dictate the number seven million four hundred twenty-one thousand three hundred four, students understand where to put the digits because of the words under the commas and the blanks.
I am attaching some assignments that I send home for parents to practice place value at home. Parents dictate the numbers and students write them. Then, when all writing is done, students say each number for their parents. Feel free to modify these sheets for your needs. (In third grade, Everyday Math teaches place value from the millions to three places past the decimal point (thousandths) so that is what you will see on some of these assignments.)
Good luck!
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) I use a deck of cards and use the Ace card as the number 1 and throw out the face cards. All other cards are card value. I tell the students to draw 6 small lines on their desk(put comma between right lines) Before I start the game I tell them I want them to make a biggest number or smallest number they can make with the numbers I am calling out. I randomly draw a card and tell the students to place that number on one of the lines(let them pick) I do this until all students have their six digit number. For example, 123,456 or 986,321. I have them write their number on the board and we are able to compare, order, and talk about each number they make up. By the end of the activity they are really good at figuring out where to place the numbers. They love it!
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