Place Value, Odd and Even Games
A selection of free maths games which help young children understand place value or odd and even numbers. Playing these maths games can help children to understand this difficult concept of tens and units. Key Stage 1, elementary grade children can have fun with the odd or even number games which demonstrate how even numbers go in pairs and how numbers alternate with odd and even.
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. UK and US versions.
Coconut Odd or Even
Coconut Odd or Even can help children identify odd and even numbers. Recognising odd and even numbers is an important number concept in Key Stage 1.
Daily 10
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.
Shark Numbers
A hundreds, tens and units maths game. Count carefully otherwise the shark will bite your boat.
ITP Beadsticks
Mathsframe has produced a tablet friendly beadsticks resource which can help with understanding place value, partitioning and modelling addition and subtraction.
Arrow Cards
Build a two or three digit number using the cards. Click the button to see how it is written. This site can help children understand place value. It is suitable for use on an interactive whiteboard.
Lifeguards
A place-value game where you need to rescue the struggling swimmers. Drag the correct number of tens and ones on the chart before you throw a life-line.
Compose and Decompose Numbers
A place value game which can help you to understand tens and ones.
Numbers to Words Fruit Splat
Match numbers to the fruits to the target number words. There are four levels of difficulty: 1-10, 1-20, 1-100 and 1-1000.
Fruit Splat Odd Even
Splat the odd and even fruit. There are three levels of difficulty: 1-10, 1-20 and 1-100.
Number Frames
Number Frames help students structure numbers to five, ten, twenty, and one hundred. Useful as a teaching resource on an interactive whiteboard.
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.
What are odd and even numbers?
A Bitesize feature which explains how even numbers divide between two and odd don't. Try your hand at making the monkeys happy.
ITP Place Value
This resource displays on-screen place value cards to construct and partition three-digit whole numbers.
Abacus
Designed for use with an interactive whiteboard this is a great resource for demonstrating place value including decimals, counting, addition and subtraction.
