Curated OER
Leprechaun Treasure Hunt
Young scholars play a relay race game that gives them points for finding and retrieving hidden items. They record data on a graph.
Curated OER
Build a Snowplow
Students design and build a snowplow using LEGO materials. They compete in an Engineer's Challenge to clear a path through Styrofoam peanuts.
Other
Nearpod: Place Value: Fall Edition
In this instructional activity, students will use base ten blocks and a place value chart to show their understanding of two-digit and three-digit numbers. They will also use place value to compare numbers.
Other
Nearpod: Introduction to Place Value
In this instructional activity on place value, 1st graders explore tens and ones, learn key vocabulary, and apply their learning to correct a mistake.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Place Value
A huge collection of teacher resources for teaching place value. There are games, PowerPoint presentations, pdf files, Word files, Excel files, Publisher files, and smartboard activities available for download at several different skill...
Other
Rice Romp: Place Value Lesson Plan
Take a look at the mathematics involved in the story "One Grain of Rice". Included is a lesson plan, geared toward 2nd-grade math students, about place value. A link to a quiz on the story is included.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Kids' Place Mathematics
Educational publisher Houghton Mifflin provides a colorful, engaging site that offers test-prep practice, test-taking strategies, and brain teasers on a variety of math concepts for grades 1-6. Just "Choose an activity and pick a grade,"...
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Kids' Place Mathematics
Educational publisher Houghton Mifflin provides a colorful, engaging site that offers test-prep practice, test-taking strategies, and brain teasers on a variety of math concepts for grades 1-6. Just "Choose an activity and pick a grade,"...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Place Value Ones and Tens
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps students identify the actual values of ones and tens. By the end of the lesson, students will recognize the numeric representations of values from 1-99.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Naming and Ordering Numbers Lesson
Get ready for your Praxis Core Math test with this lesson over naming and ordering numbers. You will review the skills being tested for this topic and complete practice problems.
abcteach
Abcteach: Select a Math Problem Type
Generate worksheets for math problems ranging from simple addition problems to place value with expanded notation for free. Your choice of font, font size, color and landscape when printing.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Constructing Tens and Ones
Students get a hands-on, minds-on experience with counting, while also constructing an understanding of tens and ones. This lesson includes a detailed plan, a link to a song about teen numbers, a video showing students engaging in...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Dice and Card Math Games
Kids love dice and playing with decks of cards. Leverage these two great (and inexpensive tools) to help students work on math facts, place value and more.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Foundational Math Concepts for Elementary Ages
Practice everyday math skills such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, place value, counting money, telling time, fractions, decimals, and more.
Other
Nearpod: Addition With Models: Winter Edition
In this lesson plan, 1st graders will use keywords and place value charts to solve addition word problems.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: It's Number Time
This lesson can be used during whole group such as circle time or math moment. Students work with numbers in a variety of ways. This lesson can be used after students have been introduced to time, place value, skip counting,
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Zero Clan
In this lesson, students will create and solve a word problem related to adding and subtracting within 1,000, develop a script for a short scene using dialect, and perform it using the elements of performance, specifically acting,...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Roll & Build
The purpose of this task is to give students practice representing two-digit numbers with concrete objects to reinforce the meaning of the tens digit and the ones digit. Directions and materials needed are included in the lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Using Sign Language to Write Four Digit Numbers
In my experience, children love to learn and experiment with sign language. In this activity, children will learn numbers 1-100 in sign language and will use that knowledge to sign four digit numbers to be written in words. This lesson...
abcteach
Abcteach: Teach: Decimals
[Free Registration/Login Required] Educators can generate worksheets for primary or elementary grades that focus on decimal addition, subtraction and fraction practice. Worksheets include graphics and answer key.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Compare and Order Whole Numbers to 100
In order to help children understand what numbers mean, it is helpful to teach them how to compare and order them. This site provides lesson plans, tips & tricks, and frequently asked questions. It's concise and easy to understand.