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Big numbers to a million: 4th grade math

Place value to 1,000,000; each place is 10× the place to its right. A free 4th grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: place value to 1,000,000; each place is 10× the place to its right.

Teach (10 min)

  • Places keep going: ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands.
  • Each place is worth ten of the place to its right.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/whole.placeBig?lesson=4-place&at=4

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Three questions on a slip:
  • 1. What is the 4 in 2,487 worth?
  • 2. What is the 7 in 8,079 worth?
  • 3. What is the 5 in 5,067 worth?

Question set

10 questions that read in words, easiest first. Questions that need a picture are on the printable sheet below.

  1. What is the 4 in 2,487 worth?
  2. What is the 7 in 8,079 worth?
  3. What is the 5 in 5,067 worth?
  4. What is the 7 in 7,037 worth?
  5. What is the 4 in 5,421 worth?
  6. What is the 4 in 7,849 worth?
  7. What is the 8 in 8,504 worth?
  8. What is the 3 in 4,330 worth?
  9. What is the 7 in 7,497 worth?
  10. What is the 6 in 8,667 worth?
Answers
  1. 400
  2. 70
  3. 5,000
  4. 7,000
  5. 400
  6. 40
  7. 8,000
  8. 30
  9. 7,000
  10. 600

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Big numbers to a million (4th grade)

  1. What is the 5 in 3,520 worth?
  2. What is the 2 in 2,746 worth?
  3. What is the 8 in 5,887 worth?
  4. What is the 6 in 8,569 worth?
  5. What is the 6 in 6,606 worth?
  6. What is the 6 in 6,870 worth?
  7. What is the 3 in 3,845 worth?
  8. What is the 3 in 993,505 worth?
  9. What is the 6 in 411,641 worth?
  10. What is the 9 in 542,992 worth?
  11. What is the 9 in 958,823 worth?
  12. What is the 7 in 53,370 worth?
Key
  1. 500
  2. 2,000
  3. 80
  4. 60
  5. 6,000
  6. 6,000
  7. 3,000
  8. 3,000
  9. 600
  10. 900
  11. 900,000
  12. 70

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