Comparing Multi-Digit Numbers Worksheets for 4th Grade

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Grade 4MathPlace Value & RoundingCCSS 4.NBT.A.2

Skill: Comparing four-, five- and six-digit numbers with greater than, less than and equal signs

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Teaching tips and what to try next

Aimed at fourth graders who read numbers into the hundred thousands and know the value of each place. A quick place-value chart drawn on scrap paper, with both numbers written in it, makes the first different digit easy to find. For smaller numbers, revisit Comparing Three-Digit Numbers, or see how large numbers are built in Place Value to the Millions.

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Same skill and layout, a fresh set of problems in every version, so children can keep practicing without repeating a page. Problems are not repeated between versions unless a skill has only a small number of possible problems (for example, the addition facts within 10).

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Fourth graders read and compare numbers up to the hundred thousands, using place value to decide which number is greater. This fourth-grade worksheet gives eighteen pairs of large numbers to compare with the symbols >, < and =.

Each pair is written with commas, and children write the correct symbol in the circle between the two numbers. The numbers have four, five or six digits. Most pairs have the same number of digits and differ in only one place, which might be the first digit or one buried in the middle, such as 46,385 and 46,395. A couple of pairs have different numbers of digits, where the longer number is always greater, and two pairs are exactly the same. Each of the ten versions has new pairs and its own answer key.

How to use it: show your child how to line up the two numbers by place, then compare from the left. The first place where the digits are different decides which number is greater, and everything after it does not matter. Many children find it helpful to underline that first different digit. If your child mixes up the two symbols, remind them that the open side of the sign faces the greater number. Reading the numbers out loud, such as forty-six thousand, three hundred eighty-five, is another good check that the commas are being used to group the digits correctly.

The answer key shows every symbol. For smaller numbers, try our Comparing Three-Digit Numbers worksheet. To learn the value of each digit in big numbers, try our Place Value to the Millions worksheet.