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More activities on number sense and place value

These activities supplement the resources in our Number Sense and Place Value Feature. They help to address three important aspects of place value: ordering, position and amount. For more details about these aspects, please see the article How Can I Support the Development of Early Number Sense and Place Value?, contained within the feature.

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100 square jigsaw

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Can you complete this jigsaw of the 100 square?

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Dotty six

Age

5 to 11

Challenge level

Dotty Six is a simple dice game that you can adapt in many ways.

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How would we count?

Age

5 to 11

Challenge level

An activity centred around observations of dots and how we visualise number arrangement patterns.

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Missing middles

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Can you work out the domino pieces which would go in the middle in each case to complete the pattern of these eight sets of three dominoes?

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Hundred square

Age

5 to 11

Challenge level

A hundred square has been printed on both sides of a piece of paper. What is on the back of 100? 58? 23? 19?

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The Deca Tree

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Find out what a Deca Tree is and then work out how many leaves there will be after the woodcutter has cut off a trunk, a branch, a twig and a leaf.

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The thousands game

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Each child in Class 3 took four numbers out of the bag. Who had made the highest even number?

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Four-digit targets

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

You have two sets of the digits 0-9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make four-digit numbers as close to the target numbers as possible?

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Fingers and hands

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

How would you count the number of fingers in these pictures?