Place Value

Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for place value of 2 digit numbers? Well look no further as Place Value Tens and Ones Game Puzzles, for CCSS 1.NBT.2, will serve as an exciting lesson plan for 1st grade elementary school classrooms. This is a great resource to incorporate into your unit as a guided math center rotation, review exercise, small group work, morning work, remediation, intervention or rti. It can also be used as a quiz, drill, test, or assessment tool to help determine student mastery of the learning target. Whether a student is homeschooled or given this as a homework assignment, kids will also love working on these at home to improve their skills.

This monkey themed puzzle set includes 24 colorful jigsaw puzzles, answer key, and an optional station instruction page with an example. These come as pdf printable sheets that can be printed on card stock and laminated for long-term use. As a suggestion, store them in a sealable gallon storage bag and place them in a tub or bin for students to use throughout the year for enrichment when they finish early. Another idea, for a project, is students can glue the completed puzzles into a notebook or journal as a reference sheet. They can also be glued on a poster for displaying on a bulletin board or as a wall anchor chart.

It covers determining the number of tens and units in a two-digit number and uses pictures of base ten blocks. By matching the puzzle pieces to solve the problems, students can gain confidence in an important and sometimes challenging skill. Your first graders will love to practice and learn to develop the strategy of using the method of base ten blocks to decompose a 2 digit number into tens and ones!

I hope you download and enjoy this engaging hands-on manipulative activity with your students! So set those worksheets aside and give our puzzles a try!

Relevant Grade 1 Common Core Standard 1.NBT.B.2
Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones.