What is place value?
Place value means the position of a digit in a number decides what it is worth. In 472 the 7 sits in the tens place, so it is worth 70, while the 4 is in the hundreds place and is worth 400 and the 2 in the ones place is worth 2. Slide that 7 one place to the left and it is worth ten times as much. This game gives a child that idea one number at a time, in the plain digits they will see in every other lesson, so what they practice here reads the same on a worksheet or a test.
How do you play the Place Value game?
A number appears and you answer one of two questions about it. Some ask what a named digit is worth, such as the value of the 7 in 472, and the digit is highlighted so it is easy to find. Others ask which digit sits in a place, such as the tens place, and you pick it from the number. You tap the answer, it checks itself the moment you tap, and the working then names the place and the worth, so a miss teaches the rule instead of just marking it wrong. Easy uses two-digit numbers, Medium three, and Hard four.
Place value from grade 1 to grade 3
Place value grows through the early grades: first grade builds tens and ones, second grade brings in hundreds, and third grade reaches the thousands. Because the difficulty here is a button, one page follows a child across all three years, from the worth of a digit in a two-digit number up to naming the place in a four-digit one. For the number skills that place value supports, our math games have more to practice.
Frequently asked questions
What is place value?
Place value means the position of a digit in a number decides what it is worth. In 472 the 7 sits in the tens place, so it is worth 70, while the 4 is in the hundreds place and is worth 400. The same digit is worth ten times more each place it moves to the left.
How do you play the Place Value game?
A number appears and you answer one of two questions about it: what a named digit is worth, such as the value of the 7 in 472, or which digit sits in a place, such as the tens place. You tap the answer, it checks itself, and the working explains it. Easy uses two-digit numbers, Medium three, and Hard four.
What grade is place value for?
Place value is a first, second and third grade idea. First grade builds tens and ones, second grade adds hundreds, and third grade works into the thousands. Start on Easy for two-digit numbers and move up as the numbers grow, so one page carries a child across those years.