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.
![100 Square Jigsaw](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-5572-icon.png?itok=ISTw0b-4)
![Dotty Six](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-7337-icon.png?itok=8RBr3_y9)
![How would we count?](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-8123-icon.jpg?itok=dg4uHKFS)
problem
How would we count?
An activity centred around observations of dots and how we visualise number arrangement patterns.
![Missing Middles](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-02-07-letme1-icon.png?itok=xLVaq-tY)
problem
Missing middles
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?
![Hundred Square](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-2397-icon.gif?itok=CU5wPqS3)
problem
Hundred square
A hundred square has been printed on both sides of a piece of paper. What is on the back of 100? 58? 23? 19?
![The Deca Tree](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-03-11-penta3-icon.gif?itok=D7FT8z2q)
problem
The deca tree
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.
![The Thousands Game](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-2646-icon.gif?itok=e-TOeCWu)
problem
The thousands game
Each child in Class 3 took four numbers out of the bag. Who had made the highest even number?
![Four-digit targets](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-6342-icon.png?itok=eLvQga6t)
problem
Four-digit targets
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?
![Fingers and Hands](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-6878-icon.gif?itok=nhFjvpiP)