Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Place Value
A huge collection of teacher resources for teaching place value. There are games, PowerPoint presentations, pdf files, Word files, Excel files, Publisher files, and smartboard activities available for download at several different skill...
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Place Value
Five factsheets show you how to use digits, place value, place holders and the signs. Worksheets, quizzes, and a game make learning fast and fun. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to adults who are working on literacy and numeracy...
Topmarks Online
Topmarks: Place Value Charts
Great resource for learning or teaching place value with different levels of difficulty which include decimals. The practice mode helps students understand how numbers are made up. Immediate feedback is given.
Toy Theater
Toy Theater: Place Value Chart
This virtual manipulative helps teach place value by offering a visual representation of ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousand, hundred thousand, and millions place.
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Decimal Place Value: One Decimal Digit
This is a complete lesson with instruction and varied exercises, explaining how the place value system works with decimals that have one decimal digit, and how to write such decimals in expanded form.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Flower Power Place Value Station
Students will compare sets of numbers using symbols for greater than, less than, and equal to.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Explorations in Place Value
Explorations in Place Value is an interactive math mini-unit that incorporates the use of children's literature, mathematical learning stations, and small group instructional strategies to reinforce basic principles of place value and to...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Finding the Right Place!
Second graders use numbers, base-ten models, and real-word pictures to examine ways to place numbers in their correct place.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Tens and One Game [Pdf]
Students will explore place value using base ten blocks and following the given directions.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: 10 More and 10 Less
This lesson is More or Less a great lesson! Engage young scholars in finding 10 more and 10 less than a number using these fun activities. Includes an eSpark video on place value, detailed lesson plan, copy of a hundreds chart, and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Solving Equations: Addition and Place Value
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a very interactive lesson to teach the students how to solve equations and word problems using the addition properties. The lesson includes Activote questions and student interaction.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Make a Ten
An interactive simulation that teaches about place value, addition, and subtraction by adding, breaking apart, and combining numbers by making tens and focusing on place value. This simulation can either be downloaded or played online...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: A Chance at Monte Carlo
At its core, the LEGO MINDSTORMS product provides a programmable microprocessor. Students use the EV3 processor to simulate an experiment involving thousands of uniformly random points placed within a unit square. Using the underlying...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Hot Potato, Cool Foil
Students explore material properties by applying some basic principles of heat transfer. They use calorimeters to determine the specific heat of three substances: aluminum, copper and another of their choice. Each substance is cooled in...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Is a Digit
A lesson for students extend their understanding of the place value system. Students will learn how to define a digit and also identify a digit located in the ones place, the tens place, and the 100s place.
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Better Lesson: Bigger or Smaller
Second grade students are asked to apply two complementary processes: counting and grouping. The conceptual understanding of the place value of a number and combining/separating numbers using place value, are critical aspects of...
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Better Lesson: Applying the Basics!
Using base-ten materials and place-value skills, 2nd graders gain a better understanding of how to add and subtract numbers.
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Better Lesson: Put It Together and Take It Apart
Second graders increase their understanding of place value by manipulating larger numbers.
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Better Lesson: Comparing Numbers Written in Expanded Form
Second graders take their understanding of place value to the next level when they compare numbers written in expanded form. This lesson plan includes printable worksheets and a video showing students engaged in the lesson.
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Better Lesson: Comparing Three Digit Numbers
Second graders use their knowledge of place value to compare three-digit numbers. This lesson plan includes a detailed plan, a learning game, a video of students engaged in the lesson plan, and tiered independent work based on ability...
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Better Lesson: Comparing Things!
Second graders explore numbers in a variety of ways to understand how to compare three-digit numbers based on an understanding of place value. This lesson includes an interactive number line video, samples of student work, and a...
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Better Lesson: Comparing Temperatures
Second graders should be able to recognize what makes one number greater or smaller than another, using place value understanding which is crucial to Common Core mastery. This lesson plan combines math and science by having students...
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Better Lesson: Is the Statement True or False?
Second graders use their knowledge of place value to determine whether a comparison statement is true or false.
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Better Lesson: Mentally Speaking!
Using base ten blocks and place value, 2nd graders explore how to become more fluent in adding and subtracting two-digit numbers without regrouping.