Virginia SOL 4.NS.1.b
The Standard
Write nine-digit whole numbers in standard form when the numbers are presented orally or in written form.
Virginia Standards of Learning for Mathematics · The student will use place value understanding to read, write, and identify the place and value of each digit in a nine-digit whole number.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students translate spoken and written number names into numerals. They place digits in the correct millions, thousands, and ones periods, using zeros as placeholders.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students correctly write a numeral such as 402,070,015 from its number name. They use commas to separate periods and include zeros for empty places.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may leave out zeros that hold empty places, such as writing 604,308 instead of 604,030,008. They may also misplace commas or treat million and thousand groups as individual digits.
How to Assess It
- Display “six hundred four million, thirty thousand, eight,” then read aloud “seven hundred eighty-one million, five thousand, twenty.” Have students write both numerals.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a place-value mat and digit cards, call a number name, and have them build and record the numeral.
Ask students to explain why thirty million, six hundred two requires zeros in 30,000,602.
Play Number Name Bingo by reading number names aloud while students cover matching numerals on prepared cards.
Give students four city budget amounts written in words, then have them write the numerals and rank the budgets.
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Related Standards
- 4.NS.1.a
Read nine-digit whole numbers, presented in standard form, and represent the same number in written form.
- 3.NS.1.a
Read and write six-digit whole numbers in standard form, expanded form, and word form.
- 4.NS.1
The student will use place value understanding to read, write, and identify the place and value of each digit in a nine-digit whole number.
- 4.NS.1.c
Apply patterns within the base 10 system to determine and communicate, orally and in written form, the place and value of each digit in a nine-digit whole numbe...
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