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Free place value games for kids

Tens Treehouse above turns place value into bananas: single bananas are ones, bunches of 10 are tens, and crates of 100 are hundreds. Kids build numbers, read them and trade between them. The games below use the same idea to add, subtract and multiply bigger numbers.

Games on this page

• 🏠 Tens Treehouse

  1st–2nd grade: build and read numbers with hundreds, tens and ones.

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• 🧗 Column Climb

  2nd–5th grade: add and subtract by place-value columns.

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• ⛰️ Multiply Mountain

  3rd–5th grade: multiply using place-value boxes.

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Tips for parents and teachers

• Bundle real things — straws, craft sticks — into groups of 10 with a rubber band.
• Ask “what is this digit worth?” rather than “what digit is this?”
• Strong place value is the secret behind carrying, borrowing and long multiplication.

Matching school standards

These games line up with these Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:

• 1.NBT.B.2 Understand the two digits of a two-digit number as tens and ones.
• 2.NBT.A.1 Understand the three digits of a three-digit number as hundreds, tens and ones.
• 2.NBT.A.3 Read and write numbers to 1,000, including expanded form.

Questions parents ask