This work shows students how place values work. This was originally created for Montessori students, but it can be used for any student learning place values. If your students do not use colors to represent units, tens, hundreds and thousands, you can print this in black and white. The number strips printed as a whole represent numbers in the thousands. You can cut these strips down to represent tens or hundreds. The dotted lines are score lines. When the strip is folded down it shows how the nu