Run sheet

Numbers to 1,000,000

Grade 4 · Lesson 2 · 23 slides · blocked practice

The big idea

Ten hundred-thousands make one million. The pattern of threes repeats, and the comma is what makes it readable.

Slide by slide

#	On the screen	What you say
1	Today — WARM-UP	Point at the five parts. Name where we are.
2	What is the value of the 6 in 64,820?	Boards up on three. This is yesterday's work — Numbers to 100,000. Do not help each other; I need to see what each of you kept.
3	60,000 answer — own slide	Show me. Everyone at once. Check your own board against this.
4	Today — I DO	We are at I DO. Boards down and flat.
5	Ten hundred-thousands make one million. The pattern of threes repeats, and the comma is what makes it readable.	Read this out. Do not explain it yet — the example explains it.
6	100,000 build 1 of 5	One hundred thousand.
7	100,000 1,000,000 build 2 of 5	Ten of them make a million.
8	100,000 1,000,000 350,000 build 3 of 5	Three hundred thousands, and 5 ten thousands.
9	100,000 1,000,000 350,000 352,000 build 4 of 5	Add 2 thousands.
10	100,000 1,000,000 350,000 352,000 352,417 build 5 of 5	Add 4 hundreds, 1 ten, 7 ones.
11	Write the value of the 7 in 273,905.	Now the same thing on a new one. Watch — nothing on your boards.
12	Count places from the right: ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands. The 7 is in the ten thousands place. 70,000 answer — own slide	I say every step aloud as I write it. The board keeps all of it.
13	Today — WE DO	We are at WE DO. Boards up.
14	Write the value of the 8 in 819,406.	Count from the RIGHT, not the left. Boards up.
15	Hundred thousands place. 800,000 answer — own slide	Boards up. Everyone at once — check yours against this.
16	Write the value of the 5 in 105,270.	There is a zero next to it. Count anyway.
17	Thousands place. 5,000 answer — own slide	Boards up. Everyone at once — check yours against this.
18	Today — YOU DO	We are at YOU DO. Boards down, books open.
19	Dimensions 4A — page 10	Open your books to this page. Wait — do not start yet.
20	Do — page 10	These are the book's own problems, same type as the three we have just done. Work them in the book.
21	Today — CLOSURE	Last part. Answers up.
22	“Counting from the right, which place is this?”	This is the question to ask yourself every time, not just today.
23	What is the value of the 4 in 476,000?	One last board. Then we are finished.

Mini whiteboards, by segment

Segment	MWB	Time	Boards	What to hold
WARM-UP	retrieval	3-5 min	BOARDS UP	Question up, boards up on the count. Everyone shows at once — a child who waits to see a neighbour's board has not retrieved anything.
I DO	none — they watch	3-4 min	boards down	Boards DOWN and flat. This segment is watching, and a child writing is not watching. Say so once at the start of the year and then hold it.
WE DO	primary use	5-6 min	BOARDS UP	One step, then boards up. Do not let them run ahead to the answer — the point is that everybody is on the same step at the same time.
YOU DO	on the sheet	4-5 min	boards down	Boards down. This is the book's problems, worked where the work will be kept.
CLOSURE	answers displayed	2-3 min	boards down	Answers on the board, children check their own. Mark nothing here.

Watch for
Counting from the LEFT is the near-universal error and it works by accident whenever the number has the length the child expects. 105,270 breaks it. Insist on right-to-left every time.