Place Value Charts: Comparing/Ordering [TEKS Tools Grade 4]

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.

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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

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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