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Standard Form and Expanded Form

Expanded Form Demonstrates the value of each digit.

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This demonstrates how to read numbers.

DO NOT SAY "AND"

UNLESS YOU HAVE A DECIMAL!!!!!

Let the comma talk.

It tells you to say million or thousand.

123,589,234 would be said as

One hundred twenty three million, five hundred eighty nine thousand, two hundred thirty four


12.453 would be said as

Twelve and four hundred fifty three thousandths 


Rounding Numbers

If the messenger to the right is

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Hefty-  5 or more  he says "GO UP!"

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Wimpy- 0-4 he says "STAY the SAME"

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The king says- "Off With Their Heads" and the heads roll to the right making them into zeros.


Comparing Numbers

Alligator Style

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The alligator is hungry!

He wants to eat the bigger number.

Tricks to compare and order numbers: 

*Stack the numbers

*Compare digits starting from the left.

*He eats the highest place value.

*He eats the bigger number in the place value.



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Remember your Place Value skills!