Place Value Chart: Comparing/Ordering [TEKS Tools Grade 4]
Updated: Oct 3
This post specifically looks at how place value charts can be used to compare/order numbers and understand patterns in multiplication. Read more about TEKS Tools and their rationale here.
PlAce Value Charts
Place value charts, the third TEKS Tool, account for around 20% of each 4th grade STAAR test. These charts help students understand our base-10 number system.
The main function of a place value chart is to show the relationship between place value locations in our number system. By visualizing numbers on a place value chart, students can compose, decompose, compare, and order numbers and understand place value magnitude.
Comparing/ordering
4.2C - compare and order whole numbers to 1,000,000,000 and represent comparisons using the symbols >, <, or =
Students are asked to compare multiple numbers using place value.
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2024-20: students were given three numbers and had to find the correct comparison
4.2C Practice Set
4.2F - compare and order decimals using concrete and visual models to the hundredths
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2026-13: students had to find the decimal greater than the model
4.2F Practice Set
Patterns in multiplication
4.4B - determine products of a number and 10 or 100 using properties of operations and place value understandings
Students learn to multiply numbers by 10 or 100 using place value patterns.
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2024-12: students were asked to multiply a number by 100
2025-3: students were asked to multiply a number by 100
4.4B Practice Set
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