Purpose:
You can help your child to understand the place value of digits in a number.
What you need:
- A pack of cards with picture cards and tens removed. (Ace = 1)\
- A place value chart to place the card on for each player.
What to do:
Shuffle the cards and leave them face down on the table.
Players take turns to take a card from the top of the deck and place it in front of them in either the hundreds, tens or ones column. (e.g. In the number 367, the 3 is in the hundreds column, the 6 is in the tens column and the 7 is in the ones column.)
Once the card has been placed it cannot be changed.
After three rounds the player who produces the largest numbers wins. (e.g If 6, 9, 3 had been turned over the player may have placed these as 639 or 936 or 369 etc)
What to expect your child to do:
To know the place value of numbers. That the 3 in 367 means 300, the 6 means 60 and the seven means 7 ones.
Variations:
Choose four cards – Thousands, Hundreds, Tens and Ones columns.
Place Value Chart
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Hundreds |
Tens |
Ones |
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He Kupu Māori:
| card | kāri |
| pile of cards | putunga kāri |
| three digit number | tau mati-toru |
| tens number | tau ngahuru |
| place value | uara tū |
| place value chart | tūtohi uara tū |
He Whakawhitinga Kōrero:
- Riwhiriwhia ngā kāri, ka whakaputu ai, ko ngā mata ki raro. (Shuffle the cards and put in a pile face down.)
- Tangohia tētahi kāri, ka whakatakoto ai ki runga i tō tūtohi uara tū, ko tōna mata ki runga. (Pick up a card and place it face up on your place value chart.)
- Me āta whakaaro kia hea whakatakoto ai i tō kāri hei hanga i te tau mati-toru nui rawa atu. (You need to think about where to put your card so that you make the largest three-digit number you can.)
- Tangohia tētahi atu kāri ināianei, ka whakatakoto ai ki runga i tō tūtohi uara. (Take another card now and place it on your place value chart.)
- Kōrerohia mai tō tau mati-toru. Nā wai i hanga te tau mati-toru nui rawa atu? (Say your three-digit number. Who has made the largest three-digit number?)
- He aha te mati o ngā [rau/tekau/tahi]? (What is the [hundreds/tens/ones] digit?)
- E hia katoa ngā tekau kei roto i tēnei tau mati-toru? (How many tens altogether in this three-digit number?)
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