Learn about expanded form, its importance in learning numbers, and the difference between expanded form and standard form.
Expanded form is a way to rewrite a numerical value that breaks up that value into separate digits, showing how much each digit actually represents in the process. Writing expanded form is fairly simple once you understand what it is.
Review writing whole numbers in expanded form, and try some practice problems. Expanded form is a way to write a number by adding the value of its digits. We can use a place value chart to think of the value of a number's digits. Let's write 7 2 2 9 in expanded form. 7229 in expanded form is 7000 + 200 + 20 + 9 .