Comparing Numbers Place Value

Compare these numbers

1 275 _ 1 257

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6 430 _ 9 517

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5 419 _ 5 419

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3 278 _ 3 287

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Comparing numbers is an important part of building a student's number sense. Number sense is the ability of a student to recognize a number, its value, and its relationship with other numbers. It is this important last component that is built by comparing numbers.

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The mystery number has a 1 in the ones place, a 4 in the hundreds place, and 0 in the tens place.  What number am I?

• 401

• 140

• 41

• 410

What number is represented using the base ten blocks?

• 5 tens and 1 one

• 1 one and 8 tens

• 9 tens and 2 ones

• 8 tens and 1 one

85 is . . .
____ tens
5 ones

• 8

• 2

In the number 345 the 4 is in the ________ place.

• Ones

• Tens

• Hundreds

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What number do these blocks represent?