One game the kids have really enjoyed is Junk It or Beat the Teacher! This has the kids thinking strategically about place value and is an easy game that could be played at home. To set up this game students can use paper or a white boards. Depending on the outcome students will draw a certain number of lines, for example, they would draw 4 lines for thousands on their page similar to when playing hangman. Then I get students to draw a Junk It circle, for their discarded numbers. In this game the teacher rolls a 10-sided dice, the students then choose to place the number where they want. The students goal is to create the largest number possible, but once they have discarded a number or placed a number they cannot move it. You can roll a 10-sided die or flip a deck of cards with the face cards removed. You will roll or draw as many cards as the place value you are playing to plus how many ever junk its you want to give them.