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?