Friday, August 7, 2015

Place Value Mats

I can't wait to use these this year. I have done these in the past and wanted to update them to bring them back into my math curriculum. These are Place Value Mats that can be used all year for different math activities.


There are many different types of math lessons that you can do with the place value mats. The top reasons are to help students understand what place value is, writing numbers, help students say numbers, and to help students write numbers.


Other ideas I have come up with include.

Lesson Ideas for
the Place Value Mat

1.For beginning lessons go over vocabulary with students. Give tips on how to read and say a number.



2.As a whole class, everyone has their boards out. The teacher tells the students a number out loud to the whole class (repeat several times). This is great for informal assessing because it is easy to see which students get it and which don’t. After everyone has their boards complete, the teacher writes the number on the board.

3.In partners or small groups, one student builds the number (use privacy folder) and then has to say the number aloud. The other students have to build their number.

4.To emphasize the place in place value, have students build the number by only giving bedroom name and number. Example: There is a 2 in the tens place and a 4 in the ten thousands place.

5.To show adding and subtracting by 1,000, 100, 10’s.  Example: Build a number such as 23,789. Then ask students to add a 1,000 but take away 100. The new number is 24,689.

6.Use the mat to demonstrate rounding for different number values.

7.Students can practice differing money amounts.


8.Students write the standard form and the written form for each number. 


**Click here for a word form/standard form blog only freebie.**



If you are interested in the whole set to create the place value mats, you can find them here. 



I typically laminate these mats so students can use these all throughout the year.



Erin



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