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A lot of students may find themselves struggling with the place and digit value. This Place Value handout is great for testing children on writing numbers out in expanded form. Once a child has a good understanding of place value; he or she will have an easier time with addition; subtraction; multiplication; division; expanded notation; etc. Hope you find this useful.
This is a worthwhile activity, but it doesn't allow the students to use their mathematical thinking to explore and derive the values In addition, this activity uses INCORRECT MATHEMATICAL LANGUAGE. When reading numbers, the word "and" is only used in mixed numerals of whole numbers AND decimals or whole numbers AND fractions. The word "AND" is NEVER used in place value without the presence of a decimal number. The number in this activity would be read as "seven billiion, four hundred eight million, six hundred thirty thousand, two hundred nineteen." Please have this corrected as we do not want our teachers instructing students to read numbers using an "AND" in each period to separate the hundred in the period and the remaining amount.
I really like the format of the worksheet for many reasons, but there is a concern. I do have a concern that students are instructed to read the sample number (7,408,630,219) as 7 billion, four hundred AND eight million, six hundred AND thirty thousand, four hundred AND nineteen- when properly it should be read as "seven billion four hundred eight million, six hundred thirty thousand, TWO hundred nineteen." The only time we use the word "and" is when we are indicating there are decimals in the number. Otherwise, the way the worksheet is laid out, clearly showing the expanded form, place value by place value will be very helpful for my students who are having a hard time with the concept.