How to write numbers in figures and words

Students read a number name and write the same number with digits, keeping every place filled.

• Choose the correct figures among four close options, such as 6,200,007 or 6,020,007
• Place each digit in a table with columns M, HTh, TTh, Th, H, T and U
• Write numbers up to the millions without the table
• Use zeros as placeholders, as in four hundred thousand and seventeen, 400,017

Reading and writing whole numbers from number names is standard 4.NBT.A.2.

Print page one. The number names follow British style with the word and, as in nine thousand and one; in the US, and is kept for decimals, so mention this before you start.

• Read the number name aloud and underline the words million and thousand.
• Write the digits for each group: millions first, then thousands, then the last three places.
• Fill any empty place with a zero and add the commas.

Check the answers with page two, which shows the table filled in.

• Dropping placeholder zeros: writing 3,303 for thirty thousand three hundred and three instead of 30,303.
• Writing groups as they sound: six million two hundred thousand and seven written as 620,007, one of the choices on the sheet.
• Shifting the table: starting three million seventy-five thousand under HTh instead of M, which gives 307,500 instead of 3,075,000.

Next, practice spelling numbers in words up to one million, then adding and subtracting whole numbers.