Understand place value within numbers with up to 7 digits

Understand place value within numbers with up to 7 digits

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Why this why now

In this unit, pupils will explore what is meant by the powers of 10 and their multiples and will use this language, along with their knowledge of place value, to read, write and represent numbers up to 10,000,000. They will use their knowledge of the composition of powers of 10 to solve problems. This will prepare them for ordering, comparing and calculating with numbers of this scale.

Prior knowledge requirements

  • Partition numbers into hundreds, tens and ones
  • Recognise digit value to 1,000 or beyond
  • Use number lines and base-10 apparatus

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Why this why now

In this unit, pupils will explore what is meant by the powers of 10 and their multiples and will use this language, along with their knowledge of place value, to read, write and represent numbers up to 10,000,000. They will use their knowledge of the composition of powers of 10 to solve problems. This will prepare them for ordering, comparing and calculating with numbers of this scale.

Prior knowledge requirements

  • Partition numbers into hundreds, tens and ones
  • Recognise digit value to 1,000 or beyond
  • Use number lines and base-10 apparatus

Understand place value within numbers with up to 7 digits

In this unit pupils will identify and place the position of 6-digit multiple of one thousand numbers, on a marked, but unlabelled number line They will read scales in graphing and measures contexts by using their knowledge of the composition of 10,000 and 100,000.