Grades 4–5
Ten Times as Much, One Tenth Of
Twenty questions like “700 is ___ times 70” and “1/10 of 5,000 is ___”. A digit is worth ten times more one place to the left.
Math worksheet · Place value and number decomposition
Compare Numbers to 1,000,000
Ten pairs of numbers up to a million to compare with <, > or =, then six sets of three to put in order.
- Grade level
- 4th grade
- Time
- About 20 minutes
- Answer key
- Yes, page 2 of the PDF
- Kids practice
- Place value, Expanded form, Comparing and ordering numbers, Rounding
What kids do
“Count the digits first. Same number of digits? Compare from the left, one place at a time.”
Printed on the sheet:
- Write <, > or =
- Order from least to greatest
Teacher tip
Count the digits first. More digits always means a bigger whole number.
How to use it
- Build the first number with base-ten blocks before kids write anything.
- Draw a place value chart on the board and keep it up while kids work.
- Do the first problem together under a document camera, then let kids finish on their own.
Watch for
Zeros as placeholders. Kids often write 307 as 37 or three hundred seven as 3007.
Talk about it
- Which is bigger and how can you tell without counting?
- Which problem was the hardest? What made it hard?
Take it further
Have kids find big numbers in the newspaper or a fact book and write them in expanded form.
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