Introduce basic place value skills with the teacher-led activity; provide your students with their own place value chart (I suggest using them inside a dry erase pocket) and recording sheet. If you’re using the digital version, assign them their own copy of the slides activity in Google Classroom.
As students become familiar with each skill and activity, you can utilize the student-led copies (or digital slides) and have them review with a partner - perfect for classwork, centers, or small group intervention.
As you progress to more complex skills, use a double chart to show how to compare numbers by finding the greatest place value where the digits in the two numbers differ. As students become familiar with each skill and activity, you can utilize the student-led copies (or digital slides) and have them review with a partner - perfect for classwork, centers, or small group intervention.
In upper elementary, this chart is perfect for showing students how to multiply and divide numbers by powers of 10, as they can shift the digits on the chart to show how their value increases or decreases.
Face-to-Face Instruction (in the classroom)
If you are conducting a whole group or small group lesson, have students take turns creating their numbers on a large interactive smartboard. As a student works on the smartboard, other students can work on their own devices at their seat.
Digital Instruction
If you are teaching remotely/virtually outside of the classroom, this activity can be done:
- live in whole group or small groups during a Zoom Meeting or Google Meet
- Assign the slides to each student in the class and have them pull their copy up on their device. You can pop into their slides to check their progress as they work.
As an Assignment
- Create an assignment in Google Classroom (or any other compatible platforms that work with Slides) and have students complete the activity and turn it in.
