Comparing Numbers using Place Value Math Center Activity

Use this place value math center game to help learners secure their understanding of place value by comparing numbers using place value charts and digit cards. Students compete with a partner to use the digit cards to create a 2, 3 or 4 digit number in their place value chart upon the turn of each digit card. Turning one card at a time they need to use their best judgement as to where in the chart the digit should be made to make the highest number possible. Once they’ve placed it, it can’t be changed! The winner is the players who’s made the most highest number out of ten turns.

Complete with place value charts, digit cards 0-9 templates, sentence stem and vocabulary mats to prompt with explanations as to why their number is greater or smaller than their partners and a game recording sheet, students can either record answers on the game sheet, or create more detailed answers with explanations in their notebooks.

Once printed, cut and laminated, this is a no prep game than can be differentiated for learners in terms of the size of numbers they generate and whether they provide and explanation or just an answer. However, you choose to use it, there’s sure to be a greater degree of confidence in math talk using place value vocabulary and a deeper understanding of number amongst learners.

This is a pdf download consisting of 13 pages and is great for math centers, intervention groups and teacher led groups to support learning ans secure understanding from first grade through to third grade (US) or Year 2- Year 4 (UK).