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Many, Many Millions

Teach your students to read, write, and understand place value in numbers up to the millions place.
Need extra help for EL students? Try the Expanded Form to Millions pre-lesson.
Grade:
Fifth Grade
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5.NBT.A.1
Need extra help for EL students? Try the Expanded Form to Millions pre-lesson.

Learning Objectives

  • Students will be able to write a seven-digit number in standard form, word form, and expanded form.

Introduction

(10 minutes)
  • Read a book aloud that introduces the concept of a million, like one of these:
  • How Big Is a Million? by Anna Milbourne
  • How Much Is a Million? by David Schwartz
  • A Million Dots by Andrew Clements
  • Tell students that today we are going to talk about place value and numbers in the millions.

Beginning

  • Allow students to use their home language (L1) or new language (L2) in their peer discussions about the book you read aloud.
  • Write down key terms from the book in a picture walk after the reading (e.g., "millions," "thousands," "place value," "hundreds," "hundred thousands," etc.).

Intermediate

  • Ask students to turn and summarize to their partner what the book was about.
  • Write the academic language they can use throughout the lesson on the board as you introduce the language.
  • Ask them to define "millions" and "place value," or tag a partner for help so they can define it together.