Hands-On Learning with Place Value Mats & Place Value Number Cards

Place value is taught many different ways and at different ages. I love using place value mats and place value cards to help with math. It is an easy way for those visual and hands-on learners to see how it works.

I wanted to have something simple we could use in many different ways. Today I have the free place value mats and place value number cards for you to grab.

These are great for learning place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division as well.

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The place value mats are a great addition to the place value printables on the site.

What is Place Value?

The dictionary says that place value is the numerical value that a digit has by virtue of its position in a number.

That sounds really complicated but it is not. Each number digit has a value based on where it is. So if I have the number 24. Then the 2 is in the tens place and the 4 is in the ones place. It is super easy once you understand what each place value is.

There are several terms used in place value: standard, value, expanded, and picture.

Each of the place value mats is really simple they have space for 9 spots and in each place value. I wanted to work with something that showed just 9 columns so that it would be easy to see that if you had more than 9 spaces you can move it to the next place value. Or it carries over to the next place value.

I recommend laminating the sheets to help them last longer. I wanted something that would fit a unifix cubes in nicely.

They have three place values per sheet. You will find place value sheets for ten, ones, hundreds, thousands, ten thousand, hundred thousand, million, ten million, hundred million, billion, ten billion, hundred billion, tenths, hundredths, thousandths

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The cards have two different types of cards. They have numbers 0 to 9 for each place value. You have the cards are in expanded form and the unit form for the numbers. Why not ten spots in a column? Because if you have enough for 10 you move it as 1 to the place value.

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Ways to use these place value mats and cards

There are so many ways to use these but today I wanted to show you how we used these to build numbers. You can keep the pages together or cut them up to make a big mat.

Place Value Mats with Unfix Cubes

I love using unifix cubes with the mats. You can use the different colors in each column.

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Place Value Mats with Place Value Dice

I often use the place value mats with place value dice. You can get dice for different levels but I have a set of 10 dice that I just love. They are great for working on expanding form of the numbers.

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Place Value Mats with Place Value Dice

You roll the three dice and then match the numbers to the correct column and then fill it in with unifix cubes. I like to match the unfix colors to the place value dice color

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Place Value Mats with Erasers

Because every season changes I love using erasers with these. You can use 3 types of erasers for each place value. It makes it simple and easy to use. I use the cards this time and we flipped through the cards to place the erasers on the mat. We get a lot of our erasers at Target.

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Place Value Mats with Counters

We have also used counters as well. You have several colors and you can mix up the different sets.

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Place Value Mats with Easy Reader Book

Now if you want to have fun you can use the place value charts with the place value easy reader book and build the numbers are you read the book.

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What you will find in the Free Place Value Mats

  • 3 place value per page
  • Place values: ten, ones, hundreds, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand, million, ten million, hundred million, billion, ten billion, hundred billion, tenths, hundredths, thousandths
  • 5 pages

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What you will find in the Place Value Number Cards printables

  • 1 page place value per place value
  • Place value number card cover and 0 through 9 number for each place value
  • Place values: tens, ones, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands, millions, ten millions, hundred millions, billions, ten billions, hundred billions, tenths, hundredths, thousandths
  • Writen in unit form and expanded form
  • 42 pages

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Check out these other place value printables & Activities:

Apple Themed Place Value Activity lets you build place value numbers with an apple theme.

Fun Pirate Themed Place Value Task Cards is great to look at what numbers are in which place value.

Easy To Use Place Value Bookmarks give you a great way to look at the numbers for each play value with how many zeros are after each number.

Check out all the fun Place Value Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.

Place Value Activities

Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com

4 Comments

  1. Hi Cassie,

    Thank you so much for sharing these amazing place value mats! I just downloaded them to use with my boys this coming week. I’m really excited to use them, because they enjoy learning as long as it’s fun and hands-on. I will be sharing this shortly.

  2. Thank you Cassie for offering the place value mats free. I love that they can be used with the unifix cubes.

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