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Place value: numbers to 10,000 and 1 million

This guide provides a sequence of small steps for extending understanding of number and the base 10 number system. Tasks include rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000 through to comparing and ordering numbers to 1 million. Negative numbers and Roman numerals to 1,000 are also covered.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 2, Year 3, Year 4
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Questioning, Concrete Representational Abstract model, Explicit teaching
Keywords	place value, base 10, digit, ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, reasoning, problem-solving, add, subtract, round, greatest, smallest, compare, order, place value, chart, number line, partitioning, powers of 10, sequence, one million, negative numbers, Roman Numerals, explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Number, Build understanding
Topics	Addition and subtraction, Place value
AC: Mathematics content descriptions	ACMNA027 Recognise, model, represent and order numbers to at least 1000 ACMNA052 Recognise, model, represent and order numbers to at least 10 000 ACMNA072 Recognise, represent and order numbers to at least tens of thousands
National numeracy learning progression	Additive strategies Quantifying numbers - QuN9, QuN10, QuN11, QuN12
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