EngageNY
Grade 5 Math Module 1, Topic A, Lesson 1
Extend the place value system. The first lesson plan in a series of 18 extends the place value system to millions through thousandths. Using place value charts, pupils see how the value of a digit changes as it moves places. Teachers use...
National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network
Sometimes We Need Large Numbers to Describe Small Things
String the class along to help them understand large numbers. A multi-disciplinary lesson uses literature, science, and math to look at very large numbers. Pupils conceptualize how much a million is using literature before performing a...
Mathematics Assessment Project
A Million Dollars
Could you carry a million dollars in $1 bills? As a middle school assessment task, learners investigate different questions regarding a million dollars. They then determine how long it would take to make a million dollars, how many...
Los Angeles County Office of Education
Assessment for the California Mathematics Standards Grade 5
Test young mathematicians' knowledge with an assessment aligned to California's fifth grade state standards. The exam covers a multitude of concepts including fractions and decimals, positive and negative numbers, measurement; and how to...
School District of Palm Beach County
Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Humans have been developing number systems for thousands of years, and while they can be very different from one another, they can also share surprising similarities. Take your young mathematicians on a journey through the history of...
Intel
How Can I Relate?
How much is a million? This unit has a set of lessons investigating large numbers on the order of millions and billions. A culminating project has groups creating a slideshow and poster about large numbers found in the school and/or...
Curated OER
How Much Is A Million
In this millions instructional activity, students solve and complete 4 different problems that include counting large numbers. First, they identify the patterns found in the table illustrated. Then, students place the correct number on...
Curated OER
Number words (millions)
In this number words learning exercise, students write the words for numbers in the millions. Students complete 8 problems total on this learning exercise.
Curated OER
A Little Bit of Millions
In this millions worksheet, students review how to count by thousands and recognize numbers in the millions. Students then place two commas into the given numbers into the thousands and millions places. Students finish by writing the...
Curated OER
Place Value Through Millions
In this place value worksheet, 5th graders answer 6 questions regarding place value. Students are asked to determine the value of digits in a period.
Curated OER
Word Problem Solving Strategies
In this word problem strategy worksheet, 6th graders solve and complete 11 different problems and short answer questions related to double coins. First, they determine what they know and what is important information. Then, students...
Curated OER
Brain POP - Dinosaur
In this earth science worksheet, students complete a sheet by filling-in each blank with the correct response. They identify various types of dinosaurs and what they ate. Students also identify their various characteristics.
Curated OER
How Much is a Million?
Fifth graders explore the relationship between customary and metric units of measurement. Through discussion and hands-on activities, they discover how units of measurement are related. Students create a millions book to aid in their...
Curated OER
Math Lesson: Just How Many is a "Million Dead"?
Students are able to convert large numbers into meaningful ratios. They are able to conceptualize 1 million. Students grapple with the concept of a million. They use this activity to convey the idea of millions by converting war death...
Curated OER
How High?
Fourth graders play an estimation game to guess how sheets of paper are in a pile and then guess who high a stack of one million would be. They work in small groups to explore ideas for working out how high the stack would be.
Curated OER
Hang a Million
Students hang 200 sheets of paper, each with 5000 X's, around the classroom. When completed, this gives them a concrete example of 1,000,000 which will be useful in getting a feel for the lengths of time involved in evolution.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: Place Value Game
This interactive math game lets you create the largest number possible as the computer gives you numbers.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Beating Heart
Do you know how long it takes your heart to beat 100 times? Test your estimation and number sense skills with this problem-solving challenge. A one-page activity taken from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families Collection. Hints and...
Math Slice
Basic Math: Rounding
This resource covers whole number rounding where students can choose to round to the nearest tens to millions. After selecting parameters students are timed completing ten problems with instant feedback and an opportunity to practice again.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Game Calculator Bingo
Sharpen your place value skills playing this interactive game, Calculator Bingo. The rules are simple but the game requires some thinking if you want to beat the computer. If you respond incorrectly the computer will allow you another turn.
Toy Theater
Toy Theater: Place Value Chart
This virtual manipulative helps teach place value by offering a visual representation of ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousand, hundred thousand, and millions place.
Math Slice
Math Slice: Place Value
A game matching the digit in a number to the correct place value. Place value includes whole numbers to the millions and decimals.