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Robot Factory: The Times-Ten Machine

Grade 4 place value in a robot factory: see why a digit is worth ten times as much as the same digit one place to its right.

Grade 4MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to4.NBT.A.1

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 Common Core standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 12 questions
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Details

Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 4
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students explain that a digit is worth ten times what it is worth in the place to its right.
  • Students multiply and divide by 10 to show how a digit's value changes when it moves one place.
  • Students compare the values of the same digit in different places of a multi-digit number.

How to use

Use after reviewing place value to one million. Act out the Times-Ten Machine with base-ten blocks for the first two problems, then let students work on their own.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

4.NBT.A.1

Understand that a digit is worth ten times what it would be worth in the place to its right.

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Robot Factory: The Times-Ten Machine

See how a digit becomes worth ten times as much when it moves one place to the left.

The Times-Ten Machine

The robot factory has a Times-Ten Machine. Every number that goes in comes out 10 times as large, so each digit moves one place to the left.

1.
Zara puts 3 tens into the Times-Ten Machine.Each ten comes out as a hundred.

3 tens = 30. Out come 3 hundreds =  .

2.
Kofi puts a crate of 25 gears into the machine.

25 × 10 =   gears.
The 2 in 25 is worth 20. After the machine, the 2 is worth  .

3.
Out of the machine come 7,000 springs. How many springs went in?

  springs went in.

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