We have been digging deep into place value objectives. We have been comparing, building, decomposing, writing, and learning about numbers. Our explorations have included low tech methods and high tech methods...my favorite being, like the little man above, combining the two to be true 21st century learners. Of course, with anything we do we like to incorporate fun with the rigor. Here are just a few of our activities!
To introduce comparing numbers we used snowballs. We scattered snowballs all over the carpet. Two teams had twenty seconds collect as many snowballs as possible. Then the players counted the snowballs and announced to the class. The students all wrote the inequality on their whiteboards. Here is one round of our fun.
Using our knowledge of greater than/ less than, we decided to play a little game...#guessmynumber. We started playing this guessing game with a second grade classroom in North Dakota through Twitter. We chose a secret number and the other classroom asked yes/no questions to try and guess our mystery number. We had to use our knowledge of greater than/ less than, digits, place value, even/odd...both classes are working hard. Here is just a peek at some of our tweets:
We have a great app called Mystery Number
that is similar to this #guessmynumber game. The app contains four
different games that give students lots of opportunities to explore
concepts of number and place value. One of the games has students
guessing a mystery number by asking questions just like #guessmynumber.
The games can be played with one player or two. Check out Mystery Number ($1.99) on the app store. 
There are also some amazing, interactive games online that practice important place value objectives. Check out the links below. We have done these games on the Chromebook lab. The children are so engaged in "playing" they don't realize how much they are learning!
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