Place value thousands

Required materials

• a pack of cards with the picture cards removed (aces count as one).
• a sheet of paper for each player with 3 columns headed hundreds, tens, and ones. The columns need to be big enough to place a playing card in each space.

See Materials that come with this resource to download:

• Place value thousands activity (.pdf)

What to do

The object of the game is to make the biggest number with 4 cards that have been randomly turned over.

• The cards are placed in a pile, face down, in the middle of the table.
• Players take turns picking one card from the top of the pack, turning it over, and placing it in either the thousands, hundreds, tens, or ones column. Once a card is placed onto the paper, its position cannot be changed.
• Once each player has their four columns filled, players read their numbers, and the player with the largest number wins.

He kupu Māori

He whakawhitinga kōrero

• Whakatakotoria te pūkei kāri, ko ngā mata ki raro. (Place the cards in a pile, face down.)
• Kei a koe i te tuatahi. Tangohia te kāri o runga, ka huripoki ai. Whakatakotoria ki te wāhi o ngā mano, o ngā rau, o ngā tekau, o ngā tahi rānei. (You go first. Take the card on top of the pile and turn it over. Place it in the thousands, the hundreds, the tens, or the ones place.)
• Kei a au ināianei. (My turn now.)
• Kia oti i a tāua ētahi kāri e whā te whakatakoto, tētahi ki ngā mano, tētahi ki ngā rau, tētahi ki ngā tekau, tētahi ki ngā tahi, ka pānui tāua i ā tāua tau. (When we have both placed three cards down, one in the hundreds column, one in the tens, and one in the ones, we read our numbers.)
• Kei a wai te tau nui rawa atu? Kei reira e kare! Ko koe te toa! (Who has the highest number? You’re the one! You’re the winner!)
• Pānuihia mai tō tau. (Read me your number.)
• E tohu ana te whitu i te aha? E tohu ana te whitu i te whitu tekau. (What does the 7 represent? The 7 represents 70.)

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