Place Value Task Cards - Colour & B&W Pack
This pack of 20 open-ended task cards focuses on deepening students’ understanding of place value through puzzles, clues, and creative problem-solving. Students use logic, reasoning, and number knowledge to solve tasks such as creating numbers with specific properties, identifying patterns, or making comparisons.
The pack includes:
- 1 full-colour version (PDF)
- 1 black-and-white version (ink-friendly)
Each challenge encourages explanation, justification, and exploration of the place value system – ideal for maths centres, early finishers, or discussion-based group tasks.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to recognise, model, represent and order numbers to at least 10 000.
- We are learning to recognise and extend place value to tenths and hundredths use decimal notation to name and represent decimals.
- We are learning to recognise, model, represent and order numbers to at least tens of thousands.
- We are learning to make connections between fractions and decimals to tenths and hundredths.
Curriculum alignment
AC9M3N01
9
Recognise, represent and order natural numbers using naming and writing conventions for numerals beyond 10 000
AC9M4N01
9
Recognise and extend the application of place value to tenths and hundredths and use the conventions of decimal notation to name and represent decimals
ACMNA052
8.4
Recognise, model, represent and order numbers to at least 10 000
ACMNA072
8.4
Recognise, represent and order numbers to at least tens of thousands
ACMNA079
8.4
Recognise that the place value system can be extended to tenths and hundredths. Make connections between fractions and decimal notation
MA2-7NA
old
Represents, models and compares commonly used fractions and decimals
MA2-1WM
old
Uses appropriate terminology to describe, and symbols to represent, mathematical ideas
MA2-2WM
old
Selects and uses appropriate mental or written strategies, or technology, to solve problems
MA2-3WM
old
Checks the accuracy of a statement and explains the reasoning used
MA2-4NA
old
Applies place value to order, read and represent numbers of up to five digits
MA2-RN-01
new
Applies an understanding of place value and the role of zero to represent numbers to at least tens of thousands
MA2-AR-02
new
Completes number sentences involving addition and subtraction by finding missing values
MA2-AR-01
new
Selects and uses mental and written strategies for addition and subtraction involving 2- and 3-digit numbers
MA2-MR-02
new
Completes number sentences involving multiplication and division by finding missing values
MA2-MR-01
new
Represents and uses the structure of multiplicative relations to 10 × 10 to solve problems
MA2-RN-02
new
Represents and compares decimals up to 2 decimal places using place value
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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