Texas Math Models

Try “number line” or “4.5D”

The place value chart

34,502 G3–4

every digit sits in a place, and the place is what it is worthten thousandsthousandshundredstensonestenthshundredths10,0001,0001001010.10.013450276Grade 3 works to 100,000Grade 4 keeps going to hundredths34,502.76the 0 is not nothing: it holds the tens place openread the words and the numbers together; each place is worth ten of the next

How this one works

How

put each digit in its column, then read what that column is worth.

Best when

you are not sure what a digit is worth.

seen one of these on a test? See it on a real question: TEKS 4.2B, what each digit is worth.

The same problem, other ways