STANDARD 1.2   Number Sense w Level 4

READING WHOLE NUMBERS

Note to Teacher: I recommend that you do not proceeding further until your student is thoroughly familiar with the place I table.  Personally, I wouldn't attempt to teach the following lesson until my students were able to draw the place value table correctly -- by memory.

Reading whole numbers is simply a matter of reading the digits within each period as you normally would, then saying the name of the period.

For example, to read the number 987,654,321, read the first three digits as you normally would:

"nine hundred eighty-seven"

Then say the name of the period:

"million"

Now read the next three digits as you normally would:

"six hundred fifty-four"

And say the name of the period:

"thousand"

Finally, read the last three digits as you normally would:

"three hundred twenty-one"

When reading numbers, you never name the ones period or the ones place, so you're already finished. When read altogether, the number is:

"nine hundred eighty-seven million,six hundred fifty-four thousands,three hundred twenty-one"

The digit 0 serves only to maintain place value and is not read aloud. For example, in reading the number 3,006,041 you would say:

"three million, six thousand, forty-one"

Copyright © 2006 by Fred Duckworth

Objective: Students will read and write a whole numbers in the millions.

READING NUMBERS