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🧮 4th Grade · Math4.NBT.A.2Unit 1: Place value to 1,000,000

Reading and writing large numbers

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🎯 Objective: Students read and write numbers in standard, word and expanded form to one million.

Lesson outline

  1. Read the populations of three US cities aloud (e.g., 305,704).
  2. Write one number in standard, word and expanded form; point out the comma and period names (thousands, ones).
  3. Partners write numbers the other reads aloud.
  4. Exit: write 305,072 in words and expanded form.

Lesson 2 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

4.NBT.A.2

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 4 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Read, write and compare multi-digit numbers
  • Understand each place is ten times the place to its right
  • Round to any place

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Multi-digit multiplication🔢 Random number generator📚 All 4th Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Place value to 1,000,000”

  1. Ten times greater
  2. Reading and writing large numbers
  3. Comparing multi-digit numbers
  4. Rounding to any place

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