Place value to 1,000,000 worksheets
Aligned with Common Core 4.NBT.A.2
Printable fourth-grade place value worksheets and how-to teaching pages to 1,000,000: the value of a digit, standard, word and expanded form, comparing and ordering big numbers, rounding to any place, ten times as much, and mystery numbers.
The worksheets
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Place Value Chart
A place value chart from ones to hundred thousands with 482,615, its standard, word and expanded forms, how commas work, and ten times as much.
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How to Read and Write Big Numbers
How commas split 482,615 into groups, how to read it out loud, and the same number in standard, word and expanded form.
Value of the Digit
Big numbers with one digit shaded. Name the digit's place and write its value, like 40,000 for the 4 in 548,312.
Standard, Word and Expanded Form
Each big number is given one way: standard form, word form or expanded form. Write it the other two ways.
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How to Compare and Order Big Numbers
Worked examples comparing 485,312 and 482,906 place by place, and putting four 5-digit numbers in order.
Compare Big Numbers
Pairs of 5- and 6-digit numbers that look alike. Compare them with >, < or =. More includes numbers with a different number of digits.
Order Big Numbers
Sets of four or five big numbers that start with the same digits. Write them in order from least to greatest.
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How to Round Big Numbers
Rounding 46,712 to the nearest thousand and 312,480 to the nearest hundred thousand, with the look-here digit marked and a number line for each.
Round Big Numbers
Round big numbers to the nearest 1,000, 10,000 or 100,000. Fewer uses number lines. More includes numbers that round up past a 9.
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How a Digit's Value Changes
Finding the value of the 4 in 548,317, and how each place to the left is worth 10 times as much, with 5, 50, 500, 5,000 and 50,000.
Ten Times as Much
Facts like 10 × 400 = 4,000 and 60,000 ÷ 10 = 6,000, plus numbers with the same digit in two places to compare. More includes digits two places apart.
Mystery Number
Place value riddles like "My tens digit is 2 more than my ones digit." Find every digit of the mystery number. More gives only one digit outright.
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What it is
Place value is what a digit is worth because of where it sits. In 482,615 the 8 is worth 80,000 and the 6 is worth 600. Fourth graders read, write, compare and round numbers up to one million, and learn that each place is worth 10 times the place to its right. Commas split big numbers into periods of three digits, which makes them easier to read.
What comes next
Multi-digit multiplication, where place value helps break big numbers into easy parts.
How to teach it
- Draw a place value chart and say each place name as you point to it.
- Read big numbers in chunks. Read the number before the comma, say "thousand," then read the rest.
- Write one number three ways (standard, word and expanded form) to see how they match.
- To compare, line the numbers up and look at the first place where the digits are different.
- Practice "10 times as much" with money. A $10 bill is worth 10 times a $1 bill.
Common mistakes
- Reading the digit instead of its value, like saying the 8 in 482,615 is worth 8.
- Forgetting zeros in word and expanded form, like writing 405,020 as 45,020.
- Comparing big numbers by the first digit only when the numbers have a different number of digits.
- Rounding to the wrong place, or changing digits to the left of the rounding place.