Place Value Snowmen

By Platform Administrator · Submitted Sep 30, 2026

Content Area: Mathematics
Grade: 2

The Revere Beach Sculpture competition is calling all architects! Using place value blocks, students will choose to design either a snowperson or a sandperson for the competition. The snow/sand people will represent a three digit number in multiple ways. Using place value (hundreds, tens and ones) blocks, students will construct multiple of their own snowperson or sandperson to represent a number.

MA Standards

2.NBT.A.1

Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones. Understand the following as special cases:

2.NBT.A.1.a

100 can be thought of as a bundle of ten tens—called a "hundred."

2.NBT.A.1.b

The numbers 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine hundreds (and 0 tens and 0 ones).

Resources

Task Template (PDF) PDF · 145 KB
Task Template (Word) DOCX · 1.59 MB
Student Directions DOCX · 6.78 KB
Rubric DOCX · 1.54 MB

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