You want to make your own place value unit that uses hands-on interesting activities, but who has time to go through the whole internet finding the best ones.  This list is your time saver.  See the best activities and products to help make learning enjoyable for you and your family.

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DIY Place Value Tools

Base Ten Rods

Place Value Mat with Ten Frame

Free place value activity with DIY base ten blocks

DIY Place Value Chart

Easy~Peasy Place ValuePrintable Place Value Slider

Place Value Cards

Place Value Houses

Place Value Tools

No time for diy?  No problem.  Pick one or more of the following products.

1. Place Value Disks–I recommend these for students 2nd grade and up
2. Giant Magnetic Base Ten–Perfect for white boards or refrigerators
3. Counting Pocket chart
4. Place Value Dice
5. No longer available Try Place Value Cards
6. Flip Stand Book
7. Cuisenaire Rods
8. Hundreds Board

Printable Visuals and Posters

Classroom Place Value Display {FREEBIE!!}

20 things to do with numbers–scroll all the way to the bottom for the printable

Place Value Chart–Page size for student reference

Free Place Value Charts to the Billions!!!

Printable Place Value Posters

Place Value Review Poster

Place Value Posters–Super cute!

Place Value Anchor Chart

Place Value Number Posters–numbers 1-20

Printable Place Value Cards

Teacher Resources

1.  Right-Brained Place Value–Have a creative child you need to teach math to?  Try this out.  Uses stories and patterns to help creative students master place value.
2. Creative Teaching Press Mini Bulletin Board Set, Place Value: Decimals to Millions
3. Creative Teaching Press Place Value Mini Bulletin Board, Gr. K-2
4. Learning Palette:  Level Two Math Place Value
5. Elementary Math: Place Value, Classroom Poster
6. Carson Dellosa Place Value Stickers
7. Learning Resources Write and Wipe Place Value Answer Boards
8. Scholastic Classroom Resources Place Value System Bulletin Board

Lessons, Explanations, and Assessments

LEGO Place Value – An Introduction to Place Value

TEACHING PLACE VALUE

What’s the Value? FREEBIE

Place Value Assessment

FREE Place Value Exit Slips

YouTube Videos for Adults

Easy $1.00 Way to teach PLACE VALUE, Standard Form, Expanded Form

Math Strategies for Teaching Place Value in Elementary School : Understanding Math

Teachers TV: Teaching Place Value–fascinating video.  As a plus everyone has a British accent  🙂

4th Grade Mathematics – Lesson One: Place Value

A Fun Way to Teach Place Value to Kids with Math U See

Place Value – How Much Is This Number Worth (Mr. Pearson Teaches 3rd Grade)

Teacher Tipster (Place Value Song)

Sample Lesson–Place Value to the Millions

YouTube Videos for Children

Schoolhouse Rock- My Hero, Zero

Place Value Street Story

Place Value Song (Rude by MAGIC! Parody)

Place Value Song – Parody to “Shake it Off”

Place Value “Problems” Ariana Grande Parody–Lot’s of fun

Math Antics – Place Value

Games and Apps

1.  Junior Learning Different Mathematics Games (Set of 6)
2.  Place Value Safari
3.  Digit Detective Game
4.  Learning Resources Dino Math Tracks Game
5.  Place Value Bingo Game
6.  Kids Math Place Value–app
7.  Place value for the 2nd grade–app
8.  ZMath Grade 3 Number Sense

Printable Games

Witchs Brew Place Value Game–Can you get all of the ingredients before the sun comes up?  Practice reading, writing and comparing numbers (Easily level from single digit to as high as you want)

Place Value Cards–Games included

Whole Body Math Learning: Stomp It! Place Value Game

Place Value Toss

Place Value Game with Dice

Teaching Place Value With a Game

FREE PRINTABLE PLACE VALUE GAME: LEARNING EXPANDED FORM

Maths Games for Kids: Place Value War
SCORE SOME POINTS WITH PLACE VALUE YAHTZEE!

Free place value games for K-2

Last Man Standing – Freebie

FREE SCARECROW EXPANDED FORM MEMORY GAME FOR FALL

Place Value Battleship

Place Value Free – Place Value Games for 3 Digit Numbers

ROLL TO 100!

Activities or Centers

Halloween Flashcards–Shows number 1-10 in 3 ways on one card.  Plus instructions on ways to use them.

Halloween Number Match–Match the numbers 1-20.  Download has 4 ways to look at each number and instructions on a single person or multiperson game.

Place Value Ice Cream Sundae Activity–Adorable!

NUMBER SENSE MYSTERY PUZZLES

Dinosaur Place Value

Pumpkin Place Value

Learning Place Value with LEGO Re-Grouping Boards

Living Math with Positive and Negative Numbers

Place Value Mystery Number Cards

Place Value Spider Freebie

Place Value Hundreds and Thousands Freebie! Roll it! Make it! Expand it!

FREE Place Value I Have, Who Has

Place Value Scoot – 3-digit numbers using base 10 (MAB) blocks

Place Value Task Cards for Primary Classrooms

Number Sliders

PLACE VALUE ROBOT – MATH ACTIVITY

Picture Books

1. Spaghetti And Meatballs For All!
2. Penguin Place Value: A Math Adventure
3. On Beyond a Million: An Amazing Math Journey
4. Sir Cumference and All the King’s Tens: A Math Adventure
5. A Place for Zero
6. Place Value
7. Olivia’s Ocean Adventure: Understand Place Value
8. Earth Day–Hooray!

The above lists are just the ones my library carried so that I could check them out before recommending them.  To see more books check out these two lists:

Books That Teach Place Value

Best Children’s Books to Teach Place Value and Base Ten

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If you didn’t find what you were looking for, you might try my pinterest page devoted to place value.