Students will
Learning objectives
- Identify the value of any digit in a four-digit number.
- Write four-digit numbers in expanded form and in standard form.
- Read a four-digit number from a base-ten block picture.
- Use zero to hold an empty place.
Place Value Worksheet
Students find digit values, switch between standard and expanded form, and work out four-digit numbers from base-ten pictures and clues.
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At a glance
- Grades
- 3–4
- Pages
- 3
- Type
- Worksheet
- Includes
- Answer key
Materials: none (base-ten blocks optional)
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Place value practice with four-digit numbers
Using 6,085 as a model, shown in a place-value chart and then in standard and expanded form, students work through 13 questions on four-digit numbers. They find the value of a bold digit in numbers with awkward zeros like 5,041, switch between standard and expanded form, count base-ten blocks in two pictures and solve two "Who am I?" riddles. A last challenge asks for the biggest number that can be made from 8, 0, 5 and 3. Every answer in the key is split into thousands, hundreds, tens and ones.
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Teaching tips
1
Watch question 8: students often write 342 for 3,000 + 40 + 2. Ask what is in the hundreds place, then point to the zero in the worked example's 6,085.
2
If students miscount the block pictures, have them build each one with real base-ten blocks and sort the pieces into a place-value chart before writing the number.
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Differentiation
Meet every learner.
Ways to adjust the 13 questions for different students.
Support
Use base-ten blocks
- Give students base-ten blocks and a blank place-value chart for every question.
- Do questions 1 and 5 together as extra worked examples.
- Skip riddle 12, which needs doubling.
On level
Teach as written
- Both pages, starting from the worked example.
- Students check each expanded form by adding it back up.
Extension
Write and extend
- Write a "Who am I?" riddle for a partner, with the places out of order.
- Make the smallest four-digit number from 8, 0, 5 and 3, and explain why 0 can't go first.
- Write each Section B number in words.
Curriculum alignment.
Each one is checked against the official document. Where the resource covers only part of a standard, the note says so.
Ontario Mathematics (2020) · Grades 3–4
Gr. 4 B1.1Reading, representing, composing and decomposing numbers
Students read, compose and decompose four-digit numbers in standard form, expanded form and block pictures. Everyday uses of numbers aren't covered.
Gr. 3 B1.5Place value with base ten materials
Students describe numbers by place value and read them from base-ten block pictures. The numbers go past Grade 3's limit of 1000.
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Which numbers does it use?
Four-digit numbers only, from 1,046 to 9,617, including several with a zero in the hundreds or tens place.
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