Numbers to 9,999
Thousands, place value, expanded form and rounding.
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Big numbers get a new room: thousands.
Look: 1 big cube (thousand), 3 flats (hundreds), 4 rods (tens), 6 cubes (ones).
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1What is the 8 in 8,214 worth?
2Write 5,000 + 300 + 6.
3What is 1 more than 2,999?
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✗Writing four thousand and seventy-five as 400075.
✓One digit in each room: 4,075.
✗Forgetting the 0 for an empty room.
✓Empty rooms still need a 0.
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Big numbers get a new room: thousands.
In 4,725 the 4 means 4,000. 10 hundreds make 1 thousand. The comma helps you read it: four thousand, seven hundred and twenty-five.
Think of it like this10 small boxes fit in a bigger box. 10 bigger boxes fit in a crate. Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands work the same way: each is 10 of the one before.
- Thousand
- 10 hundreds: 1,000.
Solved together
What does each digit in 4,075 mean?
Put the digits in their rooms.
The 0 means there are no hundreds.
Read it: four thousand and seventy-five.
4,000 + 70 + 5 = 4,075
Answer4 thousands, 0 hundreds, 7 tens, 5 ones: 4,075.
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