Explore our catalogue of award-winning activities and games
Busy Things hosts over 1600 curriculum-linked activities and games for early years and primary aged children. A school subscription also includes lots of features and tools for teachers that promise to save planning time. Take a free trial to have a proper play or book a demo here.
Place value
Experiment with numbers to learn about place value. Enter a number using the keypad. See how it is partitioned in the box on the right. See how it is arranged into columns of ones, tens, hundreds etc. in the centre panel.
Using the times and divide buttons at the bottom demonstrates how a number's place values can be shifted.
Teachers and parents: use the features in the header bar to control how many place values to work with and whether or not decimals are used - and if so how many decimal places.
Discussion points
- Each column is ten times greater that the one to its right.
- Conversely, each column is ten times smaller that the one to its left.
- Observe how a two digit number is the sum of a two digit multiple of 10 and a one digit number (partitioning).
- Observe how a three digit number is the sum of a three digit multiple of 100, a two digit multiple of 10 and a one digit number.
x
To access the whole of Busy Things take a free trial
Start your free trial now!
No payment details required. No obligation to buy.
Unlimited children in a single nurseryYour free trial includes
- access to 1600+ of fun educational activities and games
- Create an area just for your class (school version)
- Track activities and send feedback (school version)
- Customisable games and activities targeting core maths, literacy and phonics skills
- Creative activities working with colours, shapes and sounds
- Busy Code - a whole suite of activities and guides for teaching children how to code
- A custom phonics and maths worksheet maker
- Curriculum-links and activity search
- Pupil timelines - see what your pupils have been doing
- Set assignments and collate results
- Play on desktop computers, laptops and tablets
Schools
Schools have no limit on the number of pupils that can use Busy Things simultaneously.
