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Numbers up to a hundred thousand

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Numbers in the hundred thousands have six digits. There are lots of places you can find numbers in the hundred thousands.

They can be found in the population of cities and countries. For example, the population of Manchester in England is estimated to be around 575,000.

They can be used in distances. The distance from the Earth to the Moon is about 240,000 miles.

Can you think of any more examples of where we use numbers in the hundred thousands?

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Watch: Numbers to a million

Watch this video for a tutorial about numbers up to a million from maths teacher Mr Smith.

When working with big numbers, place value grids are a great way to see how the number is made.

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Example 1

This place value chart breaks the number down into hundred thousands, ten thousands, thousands, hundreds, tens and ones.

If you added three more counters to the ten thousands column below, what number would you have?

Place value chart for 6 digits

The number in the chart is made up of:

  • 4 hundred thousands
  • 3 ten thousands
  • 4 thousands
  • 5 hundreds
  • 3 tens
  • 3 ones

That is 434,533.

If three more counters are added to the ten thousands column, you could write that as an addition:

434,533 + 30,000 = 464,533

Remember, only the digit in the ten thousands column changes, the rest of the digits stay the same.

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Example 2

Mary has written this number 2321,54. She says, 鈥渢he value of the 3 is three hundred thousand.鈥 Is she correct?

Use a place value chart to check.

place value chart with 6 figures

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