Place Value Sliders!

Towards the end of the year, we went back to explore Place Value in greater detail. The children could confidently count past 10 and could recognise most numbers, but they often confuse the tens place and ones place when writing numbers. This is where my place value sliders have come in handy.

I made a slider for each child so we could make numbers. Children sat with a partner. The partner said a number and the other child had to make that number by sliding the numbers up and down. We used it as a warm up activity on and off for 2 weeks, until I was confident the children knew how to make and recognise 2 digit numbers.