K-5 Math Teaching Resources
Base Ten Cards (tens and ones)
Strengthen your class's understanding of place value with this series of base-ten flash cards. Including illustrations representing a variety of numbers from 13 to 94, this resource can be used in many different ways...
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Ten by Ten
Learners participate in hands-on activities using a hundreds chart and counting toes and fingers. They discover the patterns that are created when counting by ten. After a lecture/demo, students practice by using a worksheet embedded in...
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
Ten Frame Cards
Support your visual learners on their journey to mathematical understanding with this collection of ten frame cards. Representing numbers from 1 to 42, these pictures can be used in any number of ways to introduce children to the concept...
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
2-Digit Addition Template
Learning two-digit addition isn't about memorizing steps, it's about understanding place value. Support the development of your class's number sense with these addition mats that help children break apart two-digit numbers into tens and...
Elementary AMC
Earth Day Math
Take some time this Earth Day to nourish the growth of your young mathematicians with this series of task cards. Whether it's the four basic operations, place value, money, or elapsed time, these conservation-themed problems...
Armory Center for the Arts
Place Value Collage
How can art represent math? Use a lesson on place value collages to illustrate the different meanings that numbers have in their designated places. Kids observe photographs and paintings that show place value, then work on their own.
Illustrative Mathematics
Roll & Build
Develop young mathematicians' understanding of place value with this hands-on math activity. Working in pairs, learners take turns building two-digit numbers by rolling two ten-sided dice. Base ten blocks are then used to model the...
Illustrative Mathematics
“Crossing the Decade” Concentration
Young mathematicians concentrate on learning to fluently count. Following the rules of the classic game Memory, children take turns flipping over cards in order to find pairs of numbers that cross a decade (e.g. 29 and 30). For younger...
Illustrative Mathematics
Comparing Numbers
Young mathematicians spin their way to a deeper number sense with this fun, collaborative activity. Using two spinners, one with the numbers 0-9 and the other with the decades 00-90, pairs of students take turns building and comparing...
Illustrative Mathematics
Hundred Chart Digit Game
Math games, especially in the primary grades, provide great opportunities for developing the number sense of young mathematicians. Working in pairs with a deck of single-digit cards, students take turns drawing two cards and reading the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Place Value Party
Help your young mathematicians master three-digit place value with a hands-on activity that builds on their social orientation. They create a place value house from construction paper and sort "number friends" according to which house...
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Investigation - Who is Right?
Third graders investigate two mathematic scenarios and determine which is correct. They compare adding columns and places (such as the tens place, hundreds place, and so on) and familiarize themselves with how to add larger numbers.
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Rounding to the Nearest Tens or Hundreds
Project these rounding problems as an all-class warm up, since they are written in large text and lend nicely to this purpose. Scholars round three numbers, two double-digit and one triple-digit, to both the hundreds and tens place. Note...
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Rounding to the Nearest Tens or Hundreds (In Words)
There are 10 chances here for scholars to practice rounding and place value. Each sentence prompts them to round a number to either the nearest ten or hundred, and learners find the answer in a list on the right. None of these numbers...
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Number Sense: Expressing Numbers
Young scholars learn to express and write numbers in two ways. They complete two mixed application number expressions word problems. Learners finish by thinking of place value blocks to write the number and kind of blocks they could use...
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Tens and Units - Place Value
Young mathematicians can practice reading numbers from 0 through 200 from viewing this presentation. After a short warm up, learners are instructed to call out what each number stands for in each slide. Some good, solid practice!
Georgia Learning Connections
Stand By Me!
Get your little mathematicians moving with this experiential activity in which one child is the "tens" and another is the "ones." They collect the number of unifix cubes (in tens or singles) assigned to their respective place values and...
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Football Fun
For this addition worksheet, students add two digit numbers together without regrouping and color the ones and tens place. Students complete 8 problems total.
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Reinforcement Lesson in Place Value
Here is a wonderful place value game for your pupils that is played with dice. Very clear instructions on how the game is played are included in the plan. According to the author, they will "groan in disapproval" when it's time to stop...
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ONES and TENS
Before you can teach place value or regroup, you need to provide students with a concrete idea of the definition of ones and tens. Here, ones and tens are defined and then shown several different ways in order to represent several...
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Place Value: Tens and Ones
In this place value worksheet, students complete 12 math problems by counting tens and ones. Students put the tens and ones values together to create a two-digit number.
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Place Value - Hundred Thousands
In this place value worksheet, students determine if the underlined number in 20 numbers have the place value of ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands or hundred thousands.
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Knowing Your Place Values
In this place value worksheet, students answer 17 fill in the blank problems where they must write the value of a given digit. Next, students answer 4 multiple choice questions where they underline a digit in a given place value.
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Finding Place Value
In this place value instructional activity, 2nd graders determine how many ones and tens places are in the provided number. Students are given 13 problems in order to practice the skill.