Place Value Games

Place Value Basketball

Place Value Basketball is a fun, base ten blocks game which helps children aged 5 to 8 to know what each digit in a either a two or three digit number represents.

Bead Numbers - Place Value

Bead Numbers is a place value investigation involving a tens and ones abacus. The game provides a good context for encouraging learners to think systematically.

Carroll Diagrams - Odd and Even

Sort numbers on these Carroll Diagrams by whether they are odd or even, by place value or by more or less than a given number.

Place Value Charts

Test your knowledge of place value or hundreds, tens and units. Suitable for use on an interactive whiteboard and desktops.

Daily 10 has maths questions on a range of maths concepts: addition, subtraction, ordering, partitioning, digit values, rounding, multiplication, division, doubles, halves and fractions. Great starter or plenary activity. Useful for mental maths.

Dienes and Coins

Useful place value teaching resources for use on an interactive whiteboard. They cover hundreds, tens and ones and money. With some you will need to drag the Diennes blocks to represent the number you want. Please note the decimals section is faulty.

ITP Beadsticks

Mathsframe has produced a tablet friendly beadsticks resource which can help with understanding place value, partitioning and modelling addition and subtraction.

Shark Numbers

A hundreds, tens and units maths game. Count carefully otherwise the shark will bite your boat.

Decimal Demonstrator

A useful teaching tool to demonstrate decimals and place value.

Scooter Quest

A place value game which will test your knowledge of digit values. There are 3 levels of difficulty which go from two to four decimal places. Note the currency is dollars but this does not mean the game is not useful in other currency areas.

Number Pieces

A great teaching resource which helps children to understand place value. It uses hundreds, tens and ones blocks. It's great for demonstrating decomposition as you can break apart the pieces.

Place Value Chart Decimals

A place value teaching tool which is useful for demonstrating the value of decimal placings on an interactive whiteboard. You can easily multiply and divide by 10.

ITP Place Value

This resource displays on-screen place value cards to construct and partition three-digit whole numbers.

Moving Digit Cards

An interactive whiteboard teaching aid for place value. It demonstrates the effect of multiplying and dividing whole or decimal numbers by 0.1, 10 or 100. The columns headed by letters are incorrectly labelled.