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Ordering & Comparing Large Numbers

🎓 Ordering and Comparing Large Numbers – Year 3 (ACARA Code : AC9M3N01)
🎯Focus: Learn to compare and order large numbers accurately using place value and number strategies.

🎥Video Lessons

💡 Try these strategies while using the video:

  • ⏸️ Pause after each example and ask student to identify which number is bigger.
  • 👉 Ask student to point to the highest place value when comparing numbers.
  • 🔁 Replay tricky examples and have student write the numbers in ascending/descending order on mini-whiteboards or in notebooks.

💡 Key Ideas: Ordering & Comparing Numbers

  • 🔢 Compare from left to right: Start with the highest place value.
  • 👀 If digits are equal, move one place to the right until a difference is found.
  • ✍️ Ordering numbers: Ascending (smallest → largest) or Descending (largest → smallest).
  • 📊 Tools: Use place value charts, blocks, or number lines to visualize differences.

🧩 Mini Quiz – Quick Check

Try these after watching the video:

❓Question 1: Compare: 60,452 _ 60,500

✅ Answer: 60,452 < 60,500

❓Question 2: Arrange in ascending order: 1,042,807; 1,004,215; 1,045,000

✅ Answer: 1,004,215, 1,042,807, 1,045,000

❓Question 3: Compare using place value: 99,999; 100,009; 100,000

✅ Answer: 99,999 < 100,000 < 100,009

❓Question 4: Arrange in descending order: 108,465; 108,456; 108,499

✅ Answer: 108,499, 108,465, 108,456

❓Question 5: Compare: 215,038 _ 215,083

✅ Answer: 215,038 < 215,083


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📚 Other Lessons in This Unit

  • Place Value Beyond 10,000
  • Comparing Numeral Systems
  • Naming & Writing Large Numbers
  • Predicting Numbers

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