Place Value and Expanded Form Song Lyrics

Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Ooh, look at the number five hundred twenty-four

We can write the number out in word form

Or show it on a place value chart

Finally, expanded form breaks each place value apart

Five groups of one hundred is five hundred

And next, two groups of ten equal twenty

And then what is left

Four ones makes four

And the expanded form

Of five hundred twenty-four is five hundred plus twenty plus four

Now, check it out

We can say a number's name or write it out on a chart

We can take each place value, and then we can break it apart

When we want to define numbers written this way

We've learned the term expanded form, so that's what we say

Check out these base-ten blocks

Let's think about what we've got

We can say they are constructed

From a one, ten, and one hundred

When we stack ones 'til the tenth unit

A ten is made through it

And after lining up ten tens

One hundred comes into existence

And ten hundreds will forever

Make one thousand altogether

So now let's review them

Ten ones make a ten

Ten tens make a hundred, and then

Ten hundreds make one thousand

It's the base ten pattern that'll never end

Look at the number, nine hundred eighty-seven

Word form is how we write the words with a pencil or pen

We can show it on a place value chart

Or with expanded form, split each place value apart

Nine groups of one hundred is nine hundred, and next

Eight groups of ten equals eighty, and then what's left

Seven ones makes seven, and the expanded form is then

Nine hundred plus eighty plus seven

Now check it out

We can say a number's name or write it out on a chart

We can take each place value, and then we can break it apart

When we want to define numbers written this way

We've learned the term expanded form, so that's what we say

Check out these base-ten blocks

Let's think about what we've got

We can say they are constructed

From a one, ten, and one hundred

When we stack ones 'til the tenth unit

A ten is made through it

And after lining up ten tens

One hundred comes into existence

And ten hundreds will forever

Make one thousand altogether

So now let's review them

Ten ones make a ten

Ten tens make a hundred, and then

Ten hundreds make one thousand

It's the base ten pattern that'll never end

Place value

Place value

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, yeah

Place value, place value

One hundred forty-two