Place Value Games
I have a fun worksheet game for you to download today!
Win a Snowman is a trading game that will help your students with place value and building numbers in sets of ten.
I am so passionate about students having ample play opportunities with 'tens blocks' (also called MAB blocks) - especially in the early years. They help lay a strong, solid understanding of our number system and how numbers are formed and represented. This then makes learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and division a LOT easier.
Win a Snowman is a trading game that will help your students with place value and building numbers in sets of ten.
I am so passionate about students having ample play opportunities with 'tens blocks' (also called MAB blocks) - especially in the early years. They help lay a strong, solid understanding of our number system and how numbers are formed and represented. This then makes learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and division a LOT easier.
How to play win a snowman
In this game, the shorts (or 'ones') are snowflakes.- Students can roll one or two dice (find total of 2 to make it harder for your more-able students) and gather the same number of snowflakes.
- Put them in the ones column. Aim to build ten.
- Trade ten shorts for a long (or, a 'ten') - which in this game, is called a snowball!
- Once you have ten snowballs, you can trade for a snowman (a flat, or 'hundred').
