Subject(s): Math Grades(s): Grades 2-3, Grades 4-5

Title – Place Value Bingo
By – Trish Guthrie
Primary Subject – Math
Grade Level – 2-5

You should play this game after you have already taught Place Value.

Students will become more familiar with Place Value.

Materials: Index cards, marker, piece of paper.

Teacher’s job- You will need to create the index cards. On the top of the card you will put “ones” then you will write a “0″. Then the next card you will put “ones” and put a “1″ on it. You will continue this through #9. You will then start a set of cards for the “tens” 0-9. and so forth up to a million or whatever has been taught.

Students’ job- The students will take out a piece of paper. They will take a marker and come up with a 7 digit number (if working up to millions) They write this number down on their paper.

Ready to play- The teacher will call out a number- 9 in the hundreds place. If the student has a 9 in the hundreds place they get to circle the number. The teacher continues calling numbers- 3 in the tens place, and so on, until a student has all of them circled. They will then call back and say, I have a 2 in the ones place, a 9 in the hundreds and so forth. Then they have to read the whole number. If they got it, they win. I usually give a small reward and we start a new game, with a new number that they write down.

My students really enjoy this game. I have the students write the number in marker so that there isn’t the chance for them to change their number during the game.
This is also a great game that you can pull out and play as a review later in the year.

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