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Place Value Math Project Detectives for Comparing, Rounding, Place Value
Place Value Math Project Detectives for Comparing, Rounding, Place Value
Place Value Math Project Detectives for Comparing, Rounding, Place Value
Place Value Math Project Detectives for Comparing, Rounding, Place Value
Place Value Math Project Detectives for Comparing, Rounding, Place Value
Place Value Math Project Detectives for Comparing, Rounding, Place Value
Place Value Math Project Detectives for Comparing, Rounding, Place Value
Place Value Math Project Detectives for Comparing, Rounding, Place Value
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"My students loved this at the end of the year! It was great practice of a skill they had previously learned! "
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"My students enjoyed using this packet during their math rotations. Easily understood directions and the fewer words per page was perfect for my class. I look forward to more resources from Teaching With a Mountain View."
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DIFFERENTIATED Place Value Math Project, Place Value Detectives! Your students will love practicing their place value skills as real-life, crime-solving detectives. As the students start up their own detective agency, they must also solve 5 crimes that require them to use their place value skills. {4 of the pages have two different options to maximize your differentiation!)

Check out the preview for a look at all 8 student work pages (Also includes 4 additional pages with larger numbers, up to the millions, for differentiation).

Updated July 2022!

What does this Place Value Math Project include?

  • Original Project and Answer Keys
  • Google Slides Version of Original Project
  • NEW: Less-Text Google Slides Version with more Interactive Elements and easier navigation
  • NEW: Less-Text PDF Printable Version with less text and activities on each page.

Less-Text Version Notes: The Less-Text Versions contain ALL of the same contact and tasks, but some of the pages have been split up for ease of use. There are 12 pages in this version instead of 8. It simplifies the project for students who have a hard time navigating a page with too much text. It is also slightly more interactive in its digital version.

What Skills Are Covered in This Place Value Math Project?

  • Place Value
  • Expanded Form
  • Standard Form
  • Word Form
  • Rounding
  • Comparing

Important Note: This 8-page project is meant to enrich and extend the concept of place value. Most pages require students to think critically and use the process of elimination to figure out who committed a "crime." You can eliminate some of the more difficult pages for easy differentiation.

With differentiation options, this is standards-aligned for grades 2-4, but recommended for grades 3+ due to the complexity of solving some of the "crimes"!

Do you need a DECIMALS Place Value Project?

The Super Sports Scramble: A Decimals Place Value Project

Looking for more even MORE engaging Place Value Resources?

HUGE Place Value Activity Bundle

HUGE Place Value Task Card Bundle!

Place Value Scavenger Hunt

Place Value Puzzler Task Cards

The Candy Rush: A Group Place Value Activity

Place Value Error Analysis

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Place Value Project

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Place Value Math Project Detectives for Comparing, Rounding, Place Value

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What others say

"My students loved this at the end of the year! It was great practice of a skill they had previously learned! "
star
Ana Rose W.
"My students enjoyed using this packet during their math rotations. Easily understood directions and the fewer words per page was perfect for my class. I look forward to more resources from Teaching With a Mountain View."
star
Susan T.

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Description

DIFFERENTIATED Place Value Math Project, Place Value Detectives! Your students will love practicing their place value skills as real-life, crime-solving detectives. As the students start up their own detective agency, they must also solve 5 crimes that require them to use their place value skills. {4 of the pages have two different options to maximize your differentiation!)

Check out the preview for a look at all 8 student work pages (Also includes 4 additional pages with larger numbers, up to the millions, for differentiation).

Updated July 2022!

What does this Place Value Math Project include?

  • Original Project and Answer Keys
  • Google Slides Version of Original Project
  • NEW: Less-Text Google Slides Version with more Interactive Elements and easier navigation
  • NEW: Less-Text PDF Printable Version with less text and activities on each page.

Less-Text Version Notes: The Less-Text Versions contain ALL of the same contact and tasks, but some of the pages have been split up for ease of use. There are 12 pages in this version instead of 8. It simplifies the project for students who have a hard time navigating a page with too much text. It is also slightly more interactive in its digital version.

What Skills Are Covered in This Place Value Math Project?

  • Place Value
  • Expanded Form
  • Standard Form
  • Word Form
  • Rounding
  • Comparing

Important Note: This 8-page project is meant to enrich and extend the concept of place value. Most pages require students to think critically and use the process of elimination to figure out who committed a "crime." You can eliminate some of the more difficult pages for easy differentiation.

With differentiation options, this is standards-aligned for grades 2-4, but recommended for grades 3+ due to the complexity of solving some of the "crimes"!

Do you need a DECIMALS Place Value Project?

The Super Sports Scramble: A Decimals Place Value Project

Looking for more even MORE engaging Place Value Resources?

HUGE Place Value Activity Bundle

HUGE Place Value Task Card Bundle!

Place Value Scavenger Hunt

Place Value Puzzler Task Cards

The Candy Rush: A Group Place Value Activity

Place Value Error Analysis

More Math Projects!

Breaking Up the Bakery: Fraction Project

Movie Marathon: A Long Division Project

Resort Report: A Multi-Digit Multiplication Project

Skittles Math Printables

Multiplying and Dividing Decimals Project

Place Value Project

Perimeter and Area Math Project

Graphing and Data Math Project

Elapsed Time Project

Teaching With a Mountain View

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Good enrichment
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June 2, 2026
This was a wonderful end of unit enrichment activity for my students!
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170 reviews • Illinois
Grades taught: 4th
No Prep differentiated activity!
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May 30, 2026
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My kids used this as a review project/packet. It adapted it to struggling learners and gifted learners! Love that it is paper/pencil!!
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62 reviews • Ohio
Grades taught: 4th, 5th
Student populations: Learning difficulties
Great for Reinforcing Math Skills
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May 22, 2026
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This was a fun activity for my students to be able to review their math skills.
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A well crafted resource
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This made planning a breeze and my students loved it as well!
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Engaging and fun!
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I love this! I haven't seen anything like it and can't wait to use it next year!
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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:
Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.
Compare two three-digit numbers based on meanings of the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons.
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