5 Super Activities to Help with Place Value

Place value is a great way for your students to understand the meaning of a number. When you need some quick resources to cover place value in your lessons, we’ve a number of Activities in our Maths module to help your class learn place value concepts.

We’ve been catching up with our Lead Producer, Duncan, who specialises in Maths, to ask him about his top 5 content pieces on place value for you to try out and dig into.

These Activities cover both Key Stage 1 and 2 levels and as always, feel free to use the search bar on EducationCity to find even more content on place value – there’s more to explore!

1. Bumper Cars – Complete missing number problems by partitioning two digit numbers into tens and ones.

  • England: Year 2
  • Scotland: First *
  • Wales: Year 2
  • N. Ireland: P3

2. Catch a Cuckoo – Order 10 numbers in the range of 1 to 99.

  • England: Year 2
  • Scotland: First *
  • Wales: Year 2
  • N. Ireland: P3

3. Aqua Blocks – Identify and model place values to thousands.

  • England: Year 4
  • Scotland: First ***
  • Wales: Year 3 & 4
  • N. Ireland: P5

4. Bonus Round – To round any whole number from 1 to 10,000,000 with a required degree of accuracy.

  • England: Year 6Maths Resources
  • Scotland: Second ** & Second ***
  • Wales: Year 5 & 6
  • N. Ireland: P7

5. High Score Hero – Order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 by recognising the value of each digit.

  • England: Year 6
  • Scotland: Second ** & Second ***
  • Wales: Year 6
  • N. Ireland: P7

Don’t Forget About MyCities

Remember that you can set up any work on EducationCity in our lesson planning tool, MyCity, and group content together to give to your students – it’s a great way of tracking students’ progress on set work, and setting them targeted work designed to address curriculum objectives.

Can’t try out these Activities because your school doesn’t subscribe to EducationCity? It’s easy to check them out – get a free trial here.