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
- Years
- 4–5
- Pages
- 3
- A4
- 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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From the creator
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.
England national curriculum, Mathematics · Year 4
Year 4Place value of each digit in a four-digit number
Sections A and D ask for the value of each digit in four-digit numbers. A direct match.
Year 4Representing numbers in different ways
Students move between standard form, expanded form and block pictures. Estimating, also in this statement, isn't covered.
Good to know.
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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