Place Value
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Place Value (or base ten) materials, like Dienes equipment, have proven highly successful as way of helping children to understand this important concept. 
This is a simple Top Trumps-style maths game with the focus on helping children to understand Place Value. 
Here's another very useful Place Value game. This one focused primarily on reading numbers and recognizing 'place value'. The game follows the familiar "I have... Who has?" format.
This superb resource was contributed by one of our mathsticks members, Jason.
I find it hard to believe mathsticks has been going for so long and we haven't ever published any 100 square jigsaws.
Here is the first of several new Christmas themed
Here's another 'why didn't I think of that' moment - a stunning place-value and calculation activity (well, we think it's fairly stunning). I had nearly forgotten about it until we started looking through some old work files in the garage. 