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Number and Operations in Base Ten

2 Writing Numbers in
Objective
Different Forms
In order for students to work flexibly with numbers, they need to understand
different representations of numbers, including standard form, expanded form,
and word form. Understanding multiple representations of numbers sets the stage
for multiplication and division of numbers as well as understanding and comparing
fractions and decimals.

Common Core
State Standards
■■ 4.NBT.2 
Talk About It
Discuss the Try It! activity.
■■ Ask: How did you show 1,342 using Base Ten Blocks? Have students describe the
blocks they used.
■■ Ask: How did you write 1,342 in standard notation? How did you write it in expanded
notation? Have students compare their Number Forms Recording Sheet (BLM 4).
■■ Ask: How did you know how to separate the different parts of 1,342 when you
wrote it in expanded form? Discuss with students how they separated the number
into thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones.

Solve It
With students, reread the problem. Have students explain in writing the four ways
that Mr. Mancetti’s students could represent the number 1,342. Say: The next day, a
group had to represent the number 2,511 four ways. Have students complete a new
copy of the Number Forms Recording Sheet for 2,511.

More Ideas
For other ways to teach about modeling and writing numbers—
■■ Establish a learning center with Base Ten Blocks. Have students take turns working
at the center in pairs to play a game with blocks. One student will say a four-digit
number. Then the other student builds the number with blocks.
■■ Use Cuisenaire® Rods to model different numbers, and have students write the
numbers in the three different forms.

Formative Assessment
Have students try the following problem.

Which shows the word form of 5,892?

A. Five thousand, eight hundred ninety


B. Five thousand, eight hundred two
C. Five thousand, eight hundred ninety-two
42 D. Five hundred, nine hundred eighty-two
Try It! 30 minutes | Groups of 6

Here is a problem about modeling, reading, and writing one- through


four-digit numbers in various forms.

Mr. Mancetti’s class is putting on math skits to represent a number every day.
Each group of students has to represent a number in at least four different
ways. Today it is time for a group to represent the number 1,342. How could

Number and Operations in Base Ten


the group represent the number in four ways?

Introduce the problem. Then have students do the


activity to solve the problem. Distribute Base Ten Materials
• Base Ten Blocks (1 cube, 10 flats,
Blocks, a Number Forms Recording Sheet (BLM 4),
10 rods, and 10 units per group)
paper, and pencils to students. Introduce and define • Number Forms Recording Sheet
the terms standard notation, expanded notation, (BLM 4; 1 per student)
and word form, and give students examples of the • paper (1 sheet per student)
three number forms for one-, two-, three-, and four- • pencils (1 per student)
digit numbers.

1. Ask groups to use blocks to show 1,342. 2. Review expanded notation with students.
Then have students draw the blocks used to Then ask students to write 1,342 on their
model the number and write the number in recording sheets in expanded notation. Tell
standard form on their recording sheets. students that they can look at their blocks to
help them.

Watch for students who insert and into


their word form for a whole number, such as
“one thousand, three hundred, and forty-two.”
Remind students that and is used for a portion
(decimal) of a number.

3. Remind students that they also can write out


numbers by using words. Ask groups to write
1,342 in word form on their recording sheets.

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Lesson
2 Number and Operations in Base Ten Name  Answer Key

Use Base Ten Blocks to build each number. Write the number
in expanded form and standard form. (Check students’ work.)

1
. 2
.

1,000 200 30 5 1,000 0 70 8


______ + ______ + _____ + _____ ______ + ______ + _____ + _____

1,235 1,078
______________ ______________

Build the number using Base Ten Blocks. Then sketch the model for the
number. Write the number in standard form. (Check students’ models.)

3
. six thousand, three hundred twenty-one

6,321
__________________

Write each number in the forms named.


3,000 800 0 5
4
. 3,805 expanded form _________ + _________ + _________ + _________
three thousand, eight hundred five
word form ________________________________________________
9,000 200 60 8
5
. 9,268 expanded form _________ + _________ + _________ + _________
nine thousand, two hundred sixty-eight
word form ________________________________________________
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6
. one thousand, seven hundred fifty-three
1,000 700 50 3
expanded form _________ + _________ + _________ + _________
1,753
standard form __________________

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Name  Key
Answer

Challenge!  Explain why you write a 0 in a place value while


changing a number given as words into a number written in
standard form. Draw a model to help.

Challenge: (Sample) When the word form of a number does not include a word for
each place, one of the place values will have a 0 in it. An example: if the
number is greater than one thousand and the word hundred is missing, then there
is a 0 in the hundreds place when the number is written in standard form.

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Lesson
2 Number and Operations in Base Ten Name 

Use Base Ten Blocks to build each number. Write the number
in expanded form and standard form.

1
. 2
.

______ + ______ + _____ + _____ ______ + ______ + _____ + _____

______________ ______________

Build the number using Base Ten Blocks. Then sketch the model for the
number. Write the number in standard form.

3
. six thousand, three hundred twenty-one

__________________

Write each number in the forms named.


4
. 3,805 expanded form _________ + _________ + _________ + _________

word form ________________________________________________

5
. 9,268 expanded form _________ + _________ + _________ + _________

word form ________________________________________________


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6
. one thousand, seven hundred fifty-three

expanded form _________ + _________ + _________ + _________

standard form __________________

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Name 

Challenge!  Explain why you write a 0 in a place value while


changing a number given as words into a number written in
standard form. Draw a model to help.

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BL M
Name
4

Number Forms Recording Sheet


Standard Form

Word Form
Expanded Form
Drawing

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BLM 4   Number Forms Recording Sheet 151

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