St. Patrick’s Day Place Values Activity
This St. Patrick’s Day place values activity has 2nd-3rd grade students match three-digit numbers to expanded form cards. Answer key included, so checking is quick and easy.
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Description
How to Teach Three-Digit Place Value
This St. Patrick’s Day place values activity helps students understand the value of each digit in a three-digit number. In 347, the 3 means 3 hundreds, the 4 means 4 tens, and the 7 means 7 ones, so 347 is the same as 300 + 40 + 7. When students can break a number into hundreds, tens and ones, they are ready to compare numbers, add and subtract with regrouping, and round with confidence.
About the Activity
Students match 12 Pot of Gold number cards to 12 Shamrock cards that show each number in expanded form. Several numbers use the same digits in a different order, such as 347, 374, 437 and 743, and others have a zero, such as 305 and 350, so students must think about the value of every digit instead of just matching digits. Students record each match on the Match Log, then finish a practice worksheet where they write the hundreds, tens and ones and the expanded form of six numbers. It is a fun March math center, small group game, or partner activity.
What’s Included
- Colorful activity cover
- How to Use page with prep tips and simple steps
- 12 Pot of Gold number cards
- 12 Shamrock expanded form cards
- Match Log recording sheet
- 2nd grade practice worksheet: hundreds, tens, ones and expanded form
- Answer keys for the matching pairs, the Match Log and the practice worksheet
Why It Helps Kids
First, matching numbers that share the same digits makes students focus on place, which is the heart of place value. Second, numbers with a zero teach that a zero holds a place even when it has no value. Third, writing expanded form builds the number sense students need for mental math and three-digit addition and subtraction.
Ideas for Teachers and Parents
Print the cards on cardstock and store them in a zip-top bag for a reusable St. Patrick’s Day center. After matching, have students put the pots of gold in order from least to greatest. At home, use this St. Patrick’s Day place values activity as a quick game, then make up new three-digit numbers and say them in expanded form together. It also works as a hundreds tens ones game for review in third grade.
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