Place Value of Large Numbers & Decimals Scavenger Hunt – Grades 5-6 – PRINTABLE

Description

Do your kids need some fun practice to practice large number place value or decimal place value? This class activity is FUN and gets kids up and moving!

This is a great practice or review activity for kids in 5th grade who are still working to make sense of large numbers and decimals, or as a review for kids in 6th grade who are still struggling or need a refresher before moving on.

How the Scavenger Hunt Works:

The scavenger hunt includes 13 problems for kids to solve. To set it up, post all 13 problems in various locations around your room. Give each student a recording sheet and then you’re ready to get started!

To begin, kids can start with ANY of the questions. They solve it on their recording sheet and then have to FIND the solution somewhere around the classroom.

When they find the answer to the place value question, they solve the NEXT question in the scavenger hunt.

Eventually, they will end up back where they started and they’ll know they have completed the hunt correctly.

Skills Covered in This Scavenger Hunt:

Your students will practice naming the place of each digit in a large number with decimals. This includes:

• Knowing place value names up to billions for large numbers
• Knowing decimal place value names to the thousandths
• Knowing the difference between whole number places and decimal places (such as the difference between ‘hundreds’ and ‘hundredths’)

Tips for Using This in the Classroom:

• Give kids a clipboard to make it easier to record their work and answers as they move about the room
• Let kids work with partners as they make their way through the scavenger hunt
• If you have a large class, assign kids a starting problem so they’re not all bunched together at the same location
• Collect the recording sheets as an informal assessment of how your students are doing
• Use this as an end-of-unit review, end-of-the-year review or as a substitute activity (be sure to do this with your students prior to leaving it with a sub so students know how it works)

Additional Skills Practice:

This download also includes 2 additional practice worksheets to provide students with additional, independent practice with understanding large numbers.

Use these with students who need additional support and practice, as an individual grade after the whole class activity, or to send home as homework practice.

Each page provides a ‘number of the day’ to focus on (large number in the billions). Students then think about that number in multiple ways and with multiple representations.

They also practice adding and subtracting powers of ten to gain understanding in our base ten number system.

Included in the Download:

• Setup and Teaching Tips
• 13 Scavenger Hunt Problem Cards (half pages)
• Scavenger Hunt Recording Page
• 2 ‘number of the day’ practice worksheets
• Answer Keys for the Hunt and worksheets

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I hope this provides a fun and easy way for kids to practice these important math skills!

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