You can practice place value a multitude of ways.

This is one where we were learning how to represent the numbers in First Grade.

Food makes everything better 🙂 

You can use giant cards, too! This version was a “place value war” game.

This is a version of the game “Heads Up.” Here, they were trying to make a ten. The person NOT holding the card would say what number you would add to the card on their head to make a ten, so the person holding the card would have to guess the OTHER number to make a ten.

You can even do multiplication with it – here they were doing times two… so person B would say “four” and then person A would have to guess what times two would equal four.

Here’s another game you can play – set out 5 cards, and the goal is to make a ten. You can use anywhere from two to all five cards. 

So this one used three cards to make a ten. 

I use cards to make a “Random Number Generator” for all kinds of different math activities, too! I’ve done them for both First and Second grade.

And to do addition and subtraction skills

Oh – and I’ve used them in small group for intervention.

There’s so many ways to use a deck of cards!