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

Ten times greater

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🎯 Objective: Students explain that a digit is worth ten times as much as the same digit one place to the right.

Lesson outline

  1. Build 3, 30 and 300 with base-ten blocks: each is ten times the one before.
  2. On a place-value chart to the millions, slide a digit one place left and say “ten times as much”.
  3. Compare the values of the 7s in 7,700 and 77,000.
  4. Exit: how many times greater is the 4 in 4,000 than the 4 in 400?

Lesson 1 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.1

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📚 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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