Meet the Thousands

10 hundreds make a thousand. Build four-digit numbers with thousand cubes.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 2

10 ones make a ten. 10 tens make a hundred. What do 10 hundreds make?
10 hundreds make 1 thousand! Stack 10 hundred flats and you get a thousand cube.
Count by thousands: 1,000, 2,000, 3,000. A comma after the thousands digit makes big numbers easy to read.
Here is 2,345: 2 thousands, 3 hundreds, 4 tens, and 5 ones. The thousands place is a new place on the left.
Each place is worth 10 times the place to its right. The 2 in 2,345 is worth 2,000.

Georgia's K-12 Mathematics Standards:

3.NR.1.1 — Read and write multi-digit whole numbers up to 10,000 to the thousands using base-ten numerals and expanded form.