Free Earth Day Place Value Arrow Card Printables
There are many ways to work on building numbers and arrow place value cards are just one way.
I love having different themes during the year to work on math. And now we have a fun free Earth Day Place Value Arrow Cards for kids to learn with.
They will have fun building numbers and learning about expanded place value.
The Earth Day Place Value Arrow Cards are a great addition to the place value printables and Earth Day printables on the site and a fun way to work on numbers.
What are Place Value Arrow Cards?
These are cards that can be stacked from biggest to smallest numbers to build numbers. It is a simple way to work on expanding numbers and how they become standard numbers.
Earth Place Value Arrow Card Printables
The Earth place value card set has place value arrow cards and task cards to use with the arrow cards.
Earth Place Value Arrow Card
The Earth Place Value Arrow Card Printables set has numbers from 1 to 9999 that kids can make with the cards. I recommend printing the arrow cards on on cardstock
You can see an example of each of the cards below.
Earth Day Place Value Task Cards
Also in this set is task cards to give to kids to build numbers. There is 3 types with numbers up to thousands, hundreds, and tens.
Things to use with the Earth Place Value Arrow Card Printables
How to stack the Arrow Cards
You start with all the cards you are using for the number. It shows all the expanded forms of the numbers. You can see 5,000, 100, 80, and 6 for the place value arrow cards.
You take the hundreds card and place it on the thousands cards. You line up the Earth on each of the cards. The Earth is on the right side. So the cards line one that that right side.
So you see the number 5,100 has been built.
You repeat the same process again with the 80 and 6 to make the number 5,186. Always starting with the biggest number.
Ways to Use these Earth Day Place Value Arrow Cards
These cards are an easy way to work on building numbers.
Use the Numbers with the Place Value Arrow Cards
You take a set of place value task cards. You can see we are starting with the tens and ones task cards. You pull out the matching cards for the number. You find the 10 and 7 cards. You can see how it shows the expanded form of the number.
Then you stack the place value cards biggest number to littlest number. This makes the number to match the task card.
Then work your way to bigger number place value numbers. It is easy place value activity to do once you get the idea. I tried to not have too many numbers repeat in the sets so you can build loads of numbers at the same time.
Store the Number Cards on Rings
If you are looking to store these place value cards, I recommend putting them on rings. It is super easy to do. You use a hole punch
It also makes it easy for kids to flip through the cards as they are building their numbers.
use the Place Value Arrow Cards With Place Value Dice
If you want to use the place value arrow cards with out the task cards. Then use place value dice
What you will find in the free Earth Day Place Value Numbers
- Earth Day themed Arrow Cards
- Place Value: thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones
- Place Value Task Cards for: 4 digits, 3 digits and 2 digit numbers
- 8 pages of printables
More Earth Day Math Printables
Geometry: Recycling Sorting By Angles is a great hands-on learning activity for angles and geometry.
Recycling Earth Day Fraction Matching Cards With Help Mat 8 fun matching cards with fractions for kids to work on.
Earth Day Graphing with ABC, Numbers & Shapes has several types of graphing worksheets with letters, numbers, and shapes. And there is a basic Earth Graphing worksheet. It has two options of dice to use with the graphing set.
Earth Day Clip Cards for Comparing Numbers work on greater than and less than for kids. These are great for looking at numbers sizes.
Check out all the fun Earth Day Printables & Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com