Place Value Power: Understanding Hundreds, Tens, and Ones!

Mathematics Grades 4th Grade 2:31 Video
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Lesson Description

Let's explore place value using place value tables to understand how numbers are made up of hundreds, tens, and ones. This lesson uses a Khan Academy video to make learning fun and easy!

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Place value tables

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Duration: 2:31
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Key Concepts

  • Place Value
  • Hundreds
  • Tens
  • Ones
  • Place Value Table

Learning Objectives

  • Students will be able to identify the place value of digits in a 3-digit number.
  • Students will be able to represent numbers using a place value table.
  • Students will be able to decompose a 3-digit number into its hundreds, tens, and ones components.

Educator Instructions

  • Introduction (5 mins)
    Begin by asking students what they already know about place value. Discuss how numbers are made up of different parts (ones, tens, hundreds). Introduce the concept of a place value table as a helpful tool for understanding numbers.
  • Video Viewing (7 mins)
    Play the Khan Academy video 'Place value tables'. Instruct students to pay close attention to how the instructor explains place value and uses the place value table.
  • Guided Practice (10 mins)
    After watching the video, work through a few examples together as a class. Write a 3-digit number on the board (e.g., 357). Ask students to identify how many hundreds, tens, and ones are in the number. Fill in a place value table on the board together. Repeat with a few more examples.
  • Independent Practice (10 mins)
    Provide students with a worksheet containing a variety of 3-digit numbers. Ask them to create place value tables for each number, identifying the number of hundreds, tens, and ones. Encourage them to use manipulatives (e.g., base-ten blocks) if needed.
  • Wrap-up (3 mins)
    Review the main concepts of the lesson. Ask students to explain in their own words what a place value table is and how it can help them understand numbers. Briefly introduce the idea of larger place values (thousands, ten thousands, etc.) for future lessons.

Interactive Exercises

  • Place Value Dice Game
    Students roll three dice. Each die represents a place value (hundreds, tens, ones). They then create the number and write it in a place value table.
  • Base-Ten Block Challenge
    Give students a number and ask them to represent it using base-ten blocks (hundreds flats, tens rods, ones units). Then, have them fill out the place value table.

Discussion Questions

  • What is place value?
  • How does a place value table help us understand numbers?
  • Can you give an example of a number and explain its place values?

Skills Developed

  • Number Sense
  • Place Value Understanding
  • Problem Solving
  • Representation of Numbers

Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1:

In the number 629, what digit is in the tens place?

Correct Answer: 2

Question 2:

Which of these shows the number 481 in a place value table?

Correct Answer: 4 hundreds, 8 tens, 1 one

Question 3:

What number is made up of 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 5 ones?

Correct Answer: 705

Question 4:

In the number 914, what place value is the 9 in?

Correct Answer: Hundreds

Question 5:

Which number has 3 in the tens place?

Correct Answer: 832

Question 6:

How many tens are in the number 570?

Correct Answer: 7

Question 7:

If you have 2 hundreds, 6 tens and 8 ones, what number do you have?

Correct Answer: 268

Question 8:

What does a place value table show us?

Correct Answer: The value of each digit in a number

Question 9:

Which number has the greatest value in the hundreds place?

Correct Answer: 312

Question 10:

Which of the following shows the expanded form of 549?

Correct Answer: 500+40+9

Fill in the Blank Questions

Question 1:

The place value to the farthest right is the ______ place.

Correct Answer: ones

Question 2:

In the number 721, the 7 is in the _______ place.

Correct Answer: hundreds

Question 3:

A place value table helps us see the value of each _______ in a number.

Correct Answer: digit

Question 4:

6 hundreds + 3 tens + 2 ones = ________

Correct Answer: 632

Question 5:

The number 450 has _______ tens.

Correct Answer: 5

Question 6:

The place value between the ones and hundreds place is the _______ place.

Correct Answer: tens

Question 7:

In a place value table, we write the number of hundreds, tens and _______.

Correct Answer: ones

Question 8:

800 + 20 + 5 is the expanded form of _______

Correct Answer: 825

Question 9:

In the number 309, there are ______ tens.

Correct Answer: 0

Question 10:

When a number is represented by the sum of its parts, it's in _________ form

Correct Answer: expanded

Educational Standards

4.N.1.1:Read, write, discuss, and represent whole numbers up to 1,000,000. Representations may include numerals, words, pictures, number lines, and manipulatives. 4.N.1.2:Use place value to describe whole numbers between 1,000 and 1,000,000 in terms of millions, hundred thousands, ten thousands, thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones with written, standard, and expanded forms.

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