Grade 4 Place Value Worksheets — Expanded Form PDF
By fourth grade the columns run past the thousands into ten thousands and hundred thousands, and a digit's value can be 50,000 as easily as 5. Grade 4 works in six-digit numbers across seven separate sheets: Digits and Places, Value of a Digit, Expanded Form, Number Words, Comparing Numbers, Ordering Numbers and More and Less.
Pick the skill first. Digits and Places moves through "Which digit is in this place", "Which place is this digit in" and "How many of a place in all"; each of the other six carries three levels of its own. Set the number of questions, then print. The answer key prints on its own page, and the link reproduces the identical worksheet whenever you need it again.
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Each one generates a different kind of question, with its own three levels and answer key.
- Digits and PlacesFind which digit sits in a place, and which place a digit sits in.
- Value of a DigitSay what a digit is worth, not just which column it sits in.
- Expanded FormWrite a number as the sum of what each of its digits is worth.
- Number WordsRead and write numbers in words as well as in digits.
- Comparing NumbersDecide which of two numbers is greater, working from the biggest place.
- Ordering NumbersPut three numbers in order, smallest first or largest first.
- More and LessJump ten, a hundred or a thousand more or less without counting on.
What each level generates
Grade 4 digits and places — the exact skill behind each difficulty setting, straight from the generator.
- Level 1Which digit is in this place
- Level 2Which place is this digit in
- Level 3How many of a place in all
Grade levels follow the progression common to most English-language curricula — not one specific national curriculum. Every level shows exactly what it generates, so you can check the fit with your own program. See the full scope & sequence →
Big numbers, same rule
Nothing new happens mathematically when a number grows from four digits to six — each step left multiplies the place by ten — but the reading load jumps and mistakes multiply. Grade 4 sits at six digits throughout, so Value of a Digit is now asking for answers like 30,000 and 700,000 rather than the hundreds and thousands of Grade 3, and Digits and Places has hundred thousands to name.
Teach the columns in groups of three: ones, tens, hundreds, then thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands. Saying a number aloud in that rhythm makes writing its expanded form almost automatic, and it is the same grouping that later makes millions easy. A year-end benchmark is stating the value of any digit in a six-digit number and writing the number in expanded form without a place-value chart.
Ordering is a place-value test in disguise
Ordering Numbers gives three six-digit numbers and asks for them smallest first, then largest first. Its opening level gives the three different leading digits, so one glance settles it; the next gives all three the same leading digit, so the comparison has to run further right before anything is decided. Students who sort by "which one looks biggest" fail on that second step, which is exactly the feedback the exercise is for. Its last level is different again: it drops to five digits and prints each number in a different notation — one as a numeral, one as an expanded sum and one spelled out in words — so reading them is the work, and three six-digit spellings would not fit a printed line.
A reliable method to teach: compare the first two numbers, note the winner, then compare that winner with the third. Writing the deciding column beside each comparison turns a guess into a reasoned answer, and it transfers straight to ordering decimals in Grade 5.
Frequently asked questions
▸What place value skills does Grade 4 cover?
Grade 4 extends place value through ten thousands and hundred thousands: naming the value of any digit, writing large numbers in expanded form and in words, and comparing or ordering them. These sheets cover all of that, one skill per sheet.
▸Which place value sheets does Grade 4 have?
Seven, printed separately: Digits and Places, Value of a Digit, Expanded Form, Number Words, Comparing Numbers, Ordering Numbers and More and Less. All of them work in six-digit numbers, except the last level of Ordering Numbers, which drops to five so that three different notations still fit on one line. Each sheet carries three levels of its own.
▸How do you order large numbers?
Check they have the same number of digits, then compare from the left one column at a time. The first column where the digits differ decides the order, no matter what the remaining digits are.
▸Why do some ordering questions give all three numbers the same leading digit?
So the answer cannot be guessed from the first glance. When every number starts with the same digit, the order can only be settled by reading on to the next column and the one after that, which is the skill the sheet is meant to build.