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🔢 4th grade math · Counting & Numbers

Big numbers to a million

Places keep going: ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands. Each place is worth ten of the place to its right.

Worked example

What is the 7 in 7,037 worth?
Answer: 7,000
Count the places from the right: ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands. The 7 is in the thousands place, so it's worth 7 × 1,000 = 7,000.

For grown-ups: Place value to 1,000,000; each place is 10× the place to its right. Below: three problems to try with the worked answers, and a free printable sheet. Children can practise the same skill as a game, with no sign-up and no ads.

  • CCSS 4.NBT.A.1–2
What this practises, for teachers

Practices place value to 1,000,000; each place is 10× the place to its right (4.NBT.A.1–2). A printable sheet with its answer key, worked answers on the page, no accounts.

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🖨️ Printable sheet and key

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Try three

  1. What is the 4 in 2,487 worth?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: 400
    Count the places from the right: ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands. The 4 is in the hundreds place, so it's worth 4 × 100 = 400.
  2. What is the 7 in 8,079 worth?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: 70
    Count the places from the right: ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands. The 7 is in the tens place, so it's worth 7 × 10 = 70.
  3. What is the 4 in 457,384 worth?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: 400,000
    Count the places from the right: ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands. The 4 is in the hundred thousands place, so it's worth 4 × 100,000 = 400,000.

Before and after

Learn first: Round to tens and hundreds (3rd)

Comes next: Round big numbers (4th)

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Big numbers to a million (4th grade)

  1. What is the 5 in 3,520 worth?
  2. What is the 2 in 2,746 worth?
  3. What is the 8 in 5,887 worth?
  4. What is the 6 in 8,569 worth?
  5. What is the 6 in 6,606 worth?
  6. What is the 6 in 6,870 worth?
  7. What is the 3 in 3,845 worth?
  8. What is the 3 in 993,505 worth?
  9. What is the 6 in 411,641 worth?
  10. What is the 9 in 542,992 worth?
  11. What is the 9 in 958,823 worth?
  12. What is the 7 in 53,370 worth?

Answer key

  1. 500
  2. 2,000
  3. 80
  4. 60
  5. 6,000
  6. 6,000
  7. 3,000
  8. 3,000
  9. 600
  10. 900
  11. 900,000
  12. 70

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