Florida B.E.S.T. MA.4.NSO.1
B.E.S.T. Standard (Benchmark Cluster)
Understand place value for multi-digit numbers.
Florida B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics
Cluster contents
Benchmarks in This Standard
MA.4.NSO.1 is a B.E.S.T. standard. These are the benchmarks under it.
- MA.4.NSO.1.1
Express how the value of a digit in a multi-digit whole number changes if the digit moves one place to the left or right.
- MA.4.NSO.1.2
Read and write multi-digit whole numbers from 0 to 1,000,000 using standard form, expanded form and word form.
- MA.4.NSO.1.3
Plot, order and compare multi-digit whole numbers up to 1,000,000.
- MA.4.NSO.1.4
Round whole numbers from 0 to 10,000 to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000.
- MA.4.NSO.1.5
Plot, order and compare decimals up to the hundredths.
Teacher's field guide
What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students read, write, compare, order, and round whole numbers using place-value relationships. They explain a digit’s value and represent numbers in standard, word, and expanded forms.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can read, write, compare, order, and round large whole numbers. The student can explain that each place is ten times the value of the place to its right.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may read each digit separately or confuse a digit with its value. They may also think moving a digit one place changes its value by one, or round using the wrong neighboring digit.
How to Assess It
- Give students 472,638 and ask them to write it in expanded form, name the value of 7, and round to the nearest ten thousand.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Build six-digit numbers with digit cards on a place-value mat, then move one card left or right and state its new value.
Ask students to explain in writing how the value of 6 differs in 65,240 and 26,504.
Play Greatest Number by drawing six digit cards and arranging them to make the largest or smallest possible number.
Compare city population numbers, order them from least to greatest, and round each to a chosen place.
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Related Standards
- MA.2.NSO.1
Understand the place value of three-digit numbers.
- MA.1.NSO.1
Extend counting sequences and understand the place value of two-digit numbers.
- MA.5.NSO.1
Understand the place value of multi-digit numbers with decimals to the thousandths place.
- MA.3.NSO.1
Understand the place value of four-digit numbers.
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