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Step-by-step practice: Maths · Level 4Chapter 1 · Counting and place value to 10000
Step-by-step Maths Level 4 · Counting and place value to 10000 · Summary

Step-by-step Maths Level 4 Counting and place value to 10000: summary and key words

Part of the Step-by-step Maths Level 4 counting and place value to 10000 chapter. Chapter overview · whole chapter on one page

Chapter summary

SkillMethod
Counting in hundredsAdd or take away 100 each time; the thousands digit changes when the hundreds pass 9
Counting in thousands1000 more or less changes only the thousands digit
Counting in fiftiesFifties end in 00 or 50; count in steps of 50
Place valueValue = digit × place value (1000, 100, 10 or 1)
Partitioning and wordsSplit into thousands, hundreds, tens and ones; use and before the tens and ones

Can you…?

  • I can count on and back in hundreds from any number to 10000
  • I can say 1000 more and 1000 less than any number
  • I can count in fifties from a multiple of 50
  • I can say the value of each digit in a four-digit number
  • I can partition a four-digit number in more than one way
  • I can read and write four-digit numbers in figures and in words

Key terms

thousands
the first column on the left of a four-digit number
place value
what a digit is worth because of its column
partition
split a number into parts, such as 4000 + 800 + 20 + 6
digit
one of the symbols 0 to 9 that make a number

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