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10 Simple Place Value Games (KS1 & KS2) To Make Your Maths Lessons Fun And Effective

Alexander Athienitis

At the start of the new academic year, many of us are on the look out for some new place value games and activities for those first KS1 and KS2 maths lessons.

But these sorts of place value games are no good unless they’re actually effective at moving pupils’ knowledge of place value forward. After all, place value as we all know is the foundation stone of the rest of the KS1 and KS2 maths curriculum.

Place Value Game #1: Sorting and Matching

Place value game #2: odd one out, place value game #3: classroom birthdays, place value game #4: the ten-sided dice rounding game.

• Place Value Game #5: It’s Time To Use The Hula Hoops!

Place Value Game #6: Line-Up

Place value game #7: passing practice, place value game #8: football kit – roman numeral swaps, place value game #9: delightful darts, place value game #10: round the dice.

So, Third Space Learning is here to help.

Here are 10 of our favourite fun place value maths games and activities (KS1 & KS2), whether your pupils are at the early stage of understanding place value in Year 1 or moving on to positive and negative numbers in Year 6. (We even cover Roman Numerals!)

They also make use of many different manipulatives and ideas to give a bit more variety, beyond just using arrow cards or base ten blocks.

They’re all extremely simple to explain and manage in class and most can be adapted as appropriate to your year group. We’ve included a free place value printable download of all the games to save time.

We also have a collection of free place value worksheets for you to use with your class – not every lesson can be a game after all!

Free Download - Place Value Games

This free PDF is packed with the games discussed in this blog and presented in and easy to read (and share) format! All of the games are in here, so all that is left for you to do is download and play!

This sorting and matching place value activity is perfect for KS1 pupils, particularly Year 1. 

It’s always good to start off with maths manipulatives to introduce any unit of work – and this one is no different!

The first step is to dig the multi-link cubes out of the cupboard, and after this, ask the children to make sticks of cubes of varying length – from one cube up to ten cubes long. You can then ask the children to arrange the sticks from smallest to largest.

Next, ask the children to step back from the table. Jumble up the sticks and mix in some Numicon shapes (or bags with varying amounts of counters/dienes in them).

Now, it’s time for the children to match the various representations of numbers with its corresponding mathematical representation. You could ask them to do this, or simply tell them to match the various objects as they wish (they might match a stick of six green multi-link cubes with the Numicon shape for eight, because they’re both green).

Depending on how your pupils group the various objects will give you a good indication of any gaps in maths that may need to be filled.

Place value activities – Extension task for Sorting and Matching

To really test the children you could ask them to then sort the numbers into two groups: odd numbers and even numbers. (Using numicon shapes makes it much easier for children to visualise and identify odd numbers.)

This KS1 place value game is great for Year 2 but should be played with some tact, especially with younger pupils!

Firstly, arrange the children into groups of various sizes – a group of four, a group of five, a group of seven, a group of eight…

Ask them to count how many people are in their group, and then count how many people are in the other groups too.

Next, ask each group to sit down in a line in pairs (you could make it a race – which group can sit down the quickest?). Ask the children: can you notice a problem for any of our groups’ lines?

Then ask the children to count out the number of children in the groups that have an ‘odd one out’. Hopefully they will notice that the groups of four, six and eight are sat in perfect pairs, but the groups of three, five and seven have an extra person each time. You could reinforce the point by representing the number in each group with a Numicon shape.

This is a simple yet effective Year 1/Year 2 interactive place value game, giving pupils a chance to interact with their classmates whilst learning.

Looking for fun games and activities to boost pupils’ learning? We’ve got several articles sharing teacher approved maths activities and fun maths games , including KS2 maths games , KS1 maths games and KS3 maths games for all maths topics and a set of 35 times tables games and multiplication games you’ll want to bookmark whichever year group you teach!

A number most, if not all, children manage to remember, birthdays are an obvious cue for more place value activities , especially those that ask pupils to order numbers.

This activity begins by splitting the class into equal groups or teams. Start by asking the children which month they were born in and equating that month to its number value: January is 1, February is 2 and so on.

Then ask the children to tell the other people in their group when they were born – they could even write out their date of birth in its numerical form. For example, 1/11/2015. You could ask the children to group themselves into children who were born in an odd-numbered year and even-numbered year, odd-numbered months and even-numbered months, then on odd-numbered days and even-numbered days. Depending on the depth you are going into with regards to properties of number with your class, they could organise themselves into those whose months or day numbers fall into certain times tables, or other number properties, like square, cube or prime numbers. Next, you could get the groups to organise themselves in age order, from youngest to oldest (call it a race to speed them up). Then, finally have the whole class come together and – using the knowledge from each group – sort themselves into age order!

This is one place value game that will be relevant year after year and can be used across primary school in KS1 and KS2!

This sort of simple dice-based place value game is great for Year 1, and can be modified and extended for use with older KS1 and KS2 pupils. 

If you don’t already have ten-sided dice it could be a smart purchase as they can be handy at different points throughout the year (especially for random number generation).

The first step in this place-value activity is to split the children into pairs or triplets.

If they’re in a pair, one child gets a point each time 1, 2, 3, 4 or 10 is rolled (as they’re the ‘rounding down’ person), the other child gets a point each time 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 is rolled (they’ll be the ‘rounding up’ person).

If there are three children instead of two, the third can be the score-keeper or referee and then they can rotate the roles.

Have the children roll the die and write down each time someone gets a point. Do this ten times; get the most and you’ve won.

Place Value Game #5: It’s Time To Use The Hula Hoops!

The following lower Key Stage 2 activity could be used as a Year 3 or Year 4 place value starter, an active maths break, or a fantastic warm-up at the beginning of a PE session. Split the class into teams of ten. Give each child a post-it note displaying the number they will represent.

On each side of the classroom, PE hall or playground, set up three or four hula hoops for each team. Each hoop will represent a place value column: thousands, hundreds, tens and ones.

Give the children a spoken instruction. For example: Show me 359. The children then race to make the correct number (i.e. 359 in this case) quicker than the other team(s).

Hula hoop place value activity – Extension task

For an extra challenge, increase the hoops and complexity of the columns – both whole numbers and decimals. Once children are comfortable with three-digit numbers, you could introduce 4-digit numbers, for example.

For differentiation purposes, you could choose to use a more confident mathematician as a coach/captain, sat in place representing the decimal point.

This is the perfect place value game for Year 3, Year 2 or Year 1 pupils as everyone gets a chance to join in.

Purely for organisational purposes this place value game is likely best for Year 4, 5 or 6.

For the next activity, we suggest starting by splitting teams into equal groups. The next thing to do is to stick a post-it note with a number on the back of each child.

The children will need to read the number that each of their teammates has on their back to the rest of their group, until everyone knows what is written on their post-it note. You could alternate between numerical representations and numbers written out in their worded form.

Then, it is a race as a team to organise themselves in a number line from smallest to largest, according to the numbers they have been assigned.

You can enlarge the teams or use more and larger numbers to add extra challenge. We love this idea for ordering, so expect to see variations of it cropping up in other blog posts!

Best for Year 2 or 3, and especially good for the sort of stealthy outdoor maths activity you can sneak in as part of a PE or general outdoors session.

Using cones from the PE cupboard, set up two or more sets of three goals. Each goal will only need two cones – each cone being a goal post – and each goal will represent a place value column: ones, tens, hundreds…)

Now give each group or team a number to achieve. For example, if the given number is 385, they would need to pass the ball through the ones goal five times, then the tens goal eight times and, finally, the hundreds goal three times.

Again, the game could be easily turned into a competition by pitting teams against each other to add some pace. It is also very easily adaptable; 2-digit numbers could be used with less able pupils, 3-digit numbers with more able pupils and so on.

We’ve done the hard work for you on this one and created some templates for this printable place value game for Year 6

T ake a look below for the football kit templates with shirt numbers in Roman Numeral format. (If you have a class with split footballing loyalties, there is always the option to get them to colour in the shirts in their favourite teams’ colours.) We’ve left a few empty shirts for you to use as you wish!

One child should be holding the Roman Numeral football kit cards, the other should have cards or pieces of paper with a member of their favourite football team’s squad on each card or piece of paper.

For this example we will use the heroic England squad from the 2018 World Cup. (Keen to relive those days? Take a look at our World Cup Maths Activities .) 

The task here is for children to swap or match each Roman Numeral card with a player’s card with the corresponding squad number. You could challenge pairs or groups of children to match their cards, then order them from smallest to largest the fastest! (You could extend the task by asking the children to sort them in other ways too: odds and evens; square numbers; prime numbers; cube numbers.)

We recommend a magnetic dart board for this place value game for upper KS2; of course it works as well with real darts but they bring their own challenges to a group of Year 5 and Year 6.

The range of place value challenges you can set with a dart board – real or printable – are almost limitless. It’s also a great way to practise other number facts and mental maths strategies or when teaching times tables . 

Here are some ideas:

• You could ask the children to work their way around the game board in either an ascending or descending order.
• You could set them individual challenges: your next dart must have an odd value; your next throw must have a single digit value; your next throw must stick in a two-digit value area; your next throw must end in a prime number value area or have the factors 4 and 8.

It’s also a great opportunity for the children to practice their mental addition skills, two and three times tables – they need to be able to multiply by three to hit the magic 180!

Another simple dice-based place value game about rounding numbers, this time tailored towards Year 2 and up! Children can roll the dice and record results as many times as you decide, but we recommend 5 or 10 rolls. 

Pair off the class and provide each pair with their own pair of dice.

Children should roll the dice and see which two numbers land face up e.g. 3 and 5. From these two single digits, they can make two double digit numbers – in this case 35 and 53.

Have the children record their rolls, the resulting double digit numbers and what they round to, then have them roll again.

Some key questions:

• What numbers can you make?
• Will the two digit numbers round up or down?
• EXTENSION: Will any pair of double digit numbers ever round to the same multiple of ten (e.g. both round to 30). When does this happen?

More place value games and activit y ideas

All of the place value games above can be adapted to suit the ages and abilities of children in your class. And by using them as a way into the subject, you’ll find your pupils will be better able to create links between abstract numbers and real world scenarios.

Place value confidence is a crucial step in helping children to visualise number more clearly and partition mentally with greater success, as well as laying the foundations for improving mental strategies increasing the speed of mental calculations too.

It’s no surprise that our place value lessons are always the most popular starting point teachers choose for pupils receiving our online maths tuition and many of the primary maths strategies we use start with embedding this concept.

If you’re teaching place value to Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 or Year 6 this year, you’ll want to read our new Guide To Teaching Place Value At KS2 – it breaks down step by step the theory and practice of achieving mastery in this foundational concept.

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Definition of Place Value

So what exactly is place value?

Place value refers to the value of the digits in any given number. In the number 482 for example, the value of the digit '8' is 80 and the value of the digit '4' is 400.

At a more advanced level, in the number 36.57, the value of the digit '5' is 0.5 and the value of the digit '7' is 0.07.

In our number system, each time you move a place to the right, the value of the digit gets ten times bigger. Each time you move a place to the left, the value of the digit gets ten times smaller.

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Place Value Learning

Children start their learning journey in Math when they start to count. When they are confindent counting small groups of objects and getting beyond 10, they then begin to develop their understanding of place value up to 100 and beyond.

When they have understood how place value with whole numbers works, they can start learning about place value with decimals.

Our selection of free math place value worksheets has been split into different areas below so that you can more easily find the right sheet for your child.

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In our Math Place Value Practice area, you can practice your place value skills, adding thousands, hundreds, tens and ones. You can even use this area for adding on decimals: tenths and hundredths.

You can select the numbers you want to practice with, and print out your results when you have finished.

You can also use the practice zone for benchmarking your performance, or using it with a group of children to gauge progress.

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Place value charts.

We have a selection of place value charts which are great for helping to develop understanding of place value.

The charts cover a range of numbers from billions to millionths.

They are a good supporting resource for children who are finding place value difficult.

We also have place value grids to help children convert to and from expanded form to support place value learning.

They are also a good way to get children to become familiar with how the number system works.

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Number Grids

These printable grids will help your child learn to read and write numbers and learn the number sequence.

Some of the charts are partially filled to help your child learn their place value.

Using these sheets will help your child to:

• learn to count in tens and ones;
• learn to read and write numbers.

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We have a range of different games for helping to teach place value from 2-digit games up to decimal place value games.

There are a range of games are suitable for all ages, from kindergarten and upwards.

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Here you will find our selection of 2 digit Place Value worksheets.

Using these Math Worksheets Place Value will help your child to:

• learn their place value to 100;
• understand the value of each digit in a 2 digit number;
• Round numbers up to 100 to the nearest 10
• learn to read and write numbers to 100.
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Here you will find our selection of 3 digit Place Value worksheets.

• learn their place value with 3 digit numbers;
• understand the value of each digit in a 3 digit number;
• learn to read and write numbers up to 999.
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Here you will find our selection of Place Value up to 4 Digits worksheets.

Using these sheets will help your child learn to:

• learn their place value with 4 digit numbers;
• use place value models to understand how to combine thousands, hundreds, tens and ones;
• understand the value of each digit in a 4 digit number;
• learn to use standard and expanded form with 4 digit numbers.
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Welcome to our BIG Number Place Value area.

Here you will find sheets to help your child learn their place value to 10 million.

• Know how to read and write numbers to 10 million;
• Understand place value to 10 million.
• Solve place value problems.

All the 4th grade math worksheets in this section support elementary math benchmarks.

• 4th Grade Place Value up to 6 digits
• 5th Grade Place Value Worksheets to 10 million
• 5th Grade Ordering Large Numbers up to 100 million

Place Value Negative Numbers

• learn to order negative numbers;
• learn to position numbers from -10 to 10 on a number line.
• ordering and comparing rational numbers
• Ordering Negative Numbers -10 to 10
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Here you will find our selection of Place Value involving Decimals with up to 2 decimal places (2dp).

• learn their place value with decimals up to 2dp;
• understand the value of each digit in a decimal number;
• learn to read and write numbers with up to 2dp.
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As well as our random number worksheet generator, we have a wide range of graded rounding worsheets.

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Topics covered include:

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Give your Year 1s a firm foundation in basic maths with these activities, ideas and lessons for number place value…

Place value worksheets

These free PDF place value worksheets for KS1 from White Rose Maths help to support children’s learning. There’s a five-page worksheet to support concrete learning with straws, Base 10 and counters and a one-page worksheet that will help children understand the place value of two-digit numbers. 

1 | Video ideas for teaching place value

Help your KS1 and 2 students get to grips with place value, whether it’s whole or decimals numbers, addition or multiplication, with these six video tips and activities.

Find all six videos here.

2 | Number and place value plan

This Hamilton Trust resource includes a plan and resources for the first week of the autumn term for Year 1 or Year 2 maths. It covers:

Y1 – Numbers up to 20

• Recite, count, order on a track
• Say number before/after
• Make and partition ‘teens’

Y2 – Numbers up to 100

• Mark on a beaded line and landmarked line
• Order and compare
• Say a number between neighbouring multiples of 10
• Use place value to add and subtract
• Mental addition using partitioning

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3 | Starting number skills

This STEM.org book, aimed at children working between National Curriculum levels one to three, provides 40 activities designed to develop number skills.

Each activity contains instructions for the teacher, children’s worksheets, and ideas for extension.

Get this resource here.

Place value units of work

These activity sheets have been created to match the small steps on the White Rose maths schemes of work.

The questions include varied fluency with reasoning with problem solving, and an additional sheet with extension activities.

Children are given a variety of pictorial examples to work with and questions to provoke deeper thinking.

Place value within 50 block of work

1 | numbers to 50.

Objective: Children will recognise numbers to 50 and count objects to 50, as well as develop their use of the number line beyond 20 and up to 50 and be able to count forwards or backwards from any number up to 50.

Get this unit here.

2 | Tens and ones

Objective: Children will learn that numbers up to 50 are made up of tens and ones through simple partitioning.

3 | Represent numbers to 50

Objective: Children will explore different ways to represent numbers to 50, using objects such as counters and Base 10 equipment, and mathematical models such as the part-whole model.

4 | One more, one less

Objective: Children identify numbers to 50 and find one more or one less.

5 | Compare objects within 50

Objective: Children will compare different numbers of objects to 50 using the less than (<) and more than (>) signs.

6 | Compare numbers within 50

Objective: Children will identify whether a number is more than, less than or equal to another when given two or more numbers, within 50, and they will write statements using the < and > signs.

7 | Order numbers within 50

Objective: Children will order and compare three or more sets of objects or numbers below 50.

8 | Count in 2s

Objective: Children will explore counting forwards and backwards in 2s.

9 | Count in 5s

Objective: Children will explore counting forwards and backwards in 5s.

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Problem Solving with Place Value

February 3, 2021.

Understanding place value provides the essential foundation for so many aspects of mathematics, from multiplying and dividing by powers of ten, understanding the equivalence between fractions, decimals and percentages, and learning how to write and calculate with numbers in standard form.

The videos below show how I use the place value table to teach these topics conceptually.

Writing numbers as words

Multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000

Converting between fractions, decimals and percentages

I designed this problem-solving lesson to deepen students’ understanding of place value to connect it to other aspects of mathematics, including listing permutations, odd and even numbers and money. By linking to these topics, the questions are challenging yet remain accessible to students in key stage 3 and those studying the foundation GCSE course.

The lesson consists of six problem-solving questions, all centred around place value. Here is a sample of three of the questions.

Here is a sample of three of the questions.

Linking place value to arithmetic

In this question, students link their understanding of place value to writing numbers in figures from words. Next, they use column subtraction to find the difference between two numbers.

Linking place value to permutations

In this question, students arrange the four single-digit cards to make the numbers between 230 and 430.

Students link their understanding of place value to listing permutations.

Linking place value to odd and even numbers

To work out the smallest, even number, students need to find two three-digit numbers with the least difference.

To calculate the biggest, odd number, they need to find two numbers with the greatest difference.

Both questions can be completed through a method of trial and improvement. More able students would use:

• odd + odd = even
• odd + even =odd
• even + odd = odd
• even + even = even.

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Years 1 & 2: Number and Place Value

This list consists of activities and ideas designed to support the new curriculum programme of study in years 1 and 2. Containing tips on using the resources and suggestions for further use it covers:

Year 1: counting, reading and writing numbers to 100 (in numerals) and in multiples of twos, fives and tens, identify one more/one less, identify and represent numbers using objects and pictorial representations and read and write numbers 1-20 in words. 

Year 2: count forwards and backwards in steps of 2,3,5 from 0 and in tens, place value of two digit numbers, identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations, compare and order numbers (0-100) using <,>, = signs, read and write numbers in numerals and solve problems using place value and number facts.

Visit the primary mathematics webpage to access all lists: www.stem.org.uk/primary-maths .

Starting Number Skills

Quality Assured Category: Mathematics Publisher: Collins Educational

A treasure chest of 40 activity work sheets and games linked to many of the mathematical topics in key stage 1. Many activities allow children to become confident at recognising numbers as numerals and pictorial representations before recognising them as words, including a range of engaging problem solving challenges encouraging application of understanding of number up to ten.

Maths Chest 2 - Number: Pack 1

Quality Assured Category: Mathematics Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Aimed at Year 1, this resource provides many activity ideas for counting, reading, writing and recognising numbers using practical tasks. All activities are focused on understanding numerals zero to ten, including a range of ideas and strategies for understanding an empty set/zero.

Maths Chest 3 - Number: Pack 1

Aimed at year 2, this resource provides games and activities, including photocopiable worksheets. They could be used with the whole class or with smaller groups practising specific topics. All activities are focused on understanding numerals 0-20, including a range of engaging problem solving challenges encouraging application of understanding of ordering and grouping, greater than, less than and equal to.

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