Engaging Place Value Games Julianna Gregory Walters State Community College

By Kim Sutton Publisher: Creative Mathematics Place Value with Pizzazz: Games and Activities for Meaning in Place Value By Kim Sutton Publisher: Creative Mathematics

Shuffle your digit cards. Draw one number. Place it in your Place Value Pocket. The goal is to make the largest number possible, but you may not move a card once it has been placed. Repeat three more times. Line up with your number from least to greatest. Say the proper name of your number.

Digital Root The digital root is the sum of all the digits in the number. Repeat until you have a single number. Ex. 4372 The digital root = 4+3+7+2 = 16 = 1+6 = 7 So the digital root is 7.

The number is between 400 and 800. The number is odd. The sum of the ten’s place and the one’s place is nine. The difference between the ten’s place and the one’s place is five. The difference between the ten’s place and the hundred’s place is three. The digital root of the number is five. The number is 527.

The number is between 400 and 800. The number is odd. 100% of the digits are odd None of the digits are the same. The digit in the one’s place is greater than the digit in the ten’s and hundred’s place. The digit in the hundred’s place is greater than the ten’s place. The digit in the ten’s place is the number of sides on a pentagon. The digital root of the number is three. The number is 759.

The number is between 500 and 1,000. The number is odd. The number is a multiple of five. The difference between the ten’s place and the one’s place is three. The digit in the hundred’s place is four more than the digit in the one’s place. The digital root of the number is the number of quarters in a dollar. The number is 985.

The number is less than 5,000. There are four digits in the number. 50% of the digits are even. The number is odd. The digit in the ten’s place is the fewest number of coins to make 36 cents. The digit in the one’s place is three times the value of the digit in the ten’s place. The digit in the thousand’s place is the number of nickels in 20 cents. The digit in the hundred’s place is ½ the value of the thousand’s place. The number is 4,239.

The number is between 1/10 and 1/2. 2/3 of the digits are even. The digit in the thousandth’s place is a multiple of the digit in the hundredth’s place. The digit in the tenth’s place is the identity element for multiplication. The digit in the hundredth’s place is the number of half dollars in a dollar. The digital root of the number is the number of continents on Earth. The number is 0.124.

The number is between 25% and 50%. This number has all three digits odd. The digit in the hundredth’s place is greater than the other two digits. The digits in the tenth’s place is less than the other two digits. The digit in the thousandth’s place is four less than the digit in the hundredth’s place. The difference between the tenth’s place digit and the hundredth’s place digit is the number of sides on a hexagon. The digit in the thousandth’s place is the number of pennies in a nickel. The number is 0.395.