Five-Digit Numbers: Walkthrough and Place Value

Section role: supports 'The Thousand Group Secret' section while the teacher displays the place value chart and guides students through the formal rules of reading numbers up to 100,000. Slides: (1) Title — 'Cracking Five-Digit Numbers'; (2) Place Value House — bullets: Ten-Thousands column, Thousands column, Hundreds, Tens, Ones; (3) The Comma Rule — visual showing the comma as a stop sign where we say 'Thousand'; (4) Step 1: Read the Left Side — bullets: take the digits before the comma, example 45, read as forty-five; (5) Step 2: Say the Period — bullets: say 'Thousand' loudly and clearly; (6) Step 3: Read the Rest — bullets: read the remaining three-digit number, example 210; (7) The Zero Trap — bullets: handling numbers like 50,004, what to do when hundreds and tens are zero; (8) Vocabulary — definitions for 'Place Value', 'Period', and 'Digit'; (9) Practice Check — sample number 80,005; Closing slide: 'How do we read 72,030 without getting caught in the zero trap?' — hands control back to the teacher for the upcoming independent practice mission.


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