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Place Value

The document discusses how to write and read numbers in both figures and words. It provides examples of writing numbers as figures using digits or as words using letters. It then explains place value and provides rules for reading multi-digit numbers as words, such as including hyphens between two-digit numbers and omitting places with zeros. The document demonstrates applying these rules to examples of writing numbers as words and as figures.

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Place Value

The document discusses how to write and read numbers in both figures and words. It provides examples of writing numbers as figures using digits or as words using letters. It then explains place value and provides rules for reading multi-digit numbers as words, such as including hyphens between two-digit numbers and omitting places with zeros. The document demonstrates applying these rules to examples of writing numbers as words and as figures.

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Reading & writing numbers

Numbers can be written in 2 ways


FIGURES or WORDS.
FIGURES use 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and
may even use and .
Examples include 34, 1063, 0.75, -25

WORDS use letters, and usually take longer to write.


Examples include twelve, seventy-one, one million.

Reading & writing numbers


FIGURES are made up of DIGITS (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9) and are usually easy to write, but can be
tricky to say or write in WORDS.
In order to put FIGURES into WORDS, we must try
to imagine that the number is in a PLACE VALUE
table like this one.
Hundred

Ten

Unit

Reading & writing numbers


The number 147 would be written in this way:
Hundred

Ten

Unit

And the number 409 would be written in this way:


Hundred

Ten

Unit

Reading & writing numbers


In order to say our numbers we need to follow a few
simple rules.
If you remember how to write 1 20 in words, most
of the rest of the numbers are easy.
1 one 6 six 11 eleven
2 two 7 seven 12 twelve
3 three 8 eight

16 - sixteen
17 - seventeen

13 thirteen 18 - eighteen

4 four 9 nine 14 fourteen 19 - nineteen


5 five 10 ten 15 fifteen 20 - twenty

Reading & writing numbers


In order to say our numbers we need to follow a few
simple rules.
Other words you will need to know are:
30 thirty (not threety)

80 eighty

40 forty (not fourty) 90 - ninety


50 fifty (not fivety)

?00 - hundred

60 sixty

? 000 - thousand

70 seventy

? 000 000 - million

Reading & writing numbers


In order to say our numbers we need to follow a few
simple rules.
All TWO-DIGIT numbers higher than 20 have a
hyphen in-between them (unless they end with a 0).
45 forty-five

71 seventy-one

Watch out for 5 digit numbers!


54 875 fifty-four thousand, eight hundred and
seventy-five

Reading & writing numbers


In order to say our numbers we need to follow a few
simple rules.
If a column has a 0 in it, you dont need to say
anything for that column.
500 Five hundred (not and noughty-nought!)
603 Six hundred and three
2007 Two thousand and seven

Reading & writing numbers


Going back to our table, we can use our rules to name
these numbers.
Hundred

Ten

Unit

One hundred

forty

seven

One hundred and forty-seven

Reading & writing numbers


Going back to our table, we can use our rules to name
these numbers.
Hundred

Ten

Unit

four hundred

Four hundred and nine

nine

Reading & writing numbers


Have a think about how to write the following
numbers:
117
591
4 921

Reading & writing numbers


Did you get it?

117 One hundred and seventeen


591
4 921

Reading & writing numbers


Did you get it?

117 One hundred and seventeen


591 Five hundred and ninety-one
4 921

Reading & writing numbers


Did you get it?

117 One hundred and seventeen


591 Five hundred and ninety-one
4 921 Four thousand, nine hundred and twenty-one.

Reading & writing numbers


How about 23 580 ? How would you attempt this
one?

Reading & writing numbers


How about 23 580 ? Think about the place value
table, adding other columns as needed.
Million

Hundred

Ten

(Unit)

Thousand Thousand Thousand

Hundred

Ten

Unit

Reading & writing numbers


How about 23 580 ? Put the digits in

Million

Hundred

Ten

(Unit)

Thousand Thousand Thousand

Hundred

Ten

Unit

Reading & writing numbers


How about 23 580 ? Work out the WORDS

Million

Hundred

Ten

(Unit)

Thousand Thousand Thousand

Twenty
Three
thousand thousand

Hundred

Ten

Unit

Five
hundred

eighty

Reading & writing numbers


How about 23 580 ? Try to put them together.

Million

Hundred

Ten

(Unit)

Thousand Thousand Thousand

Twenty
Three
thousand thousand

Hundred

Ten

Unit

Five
hundred

eighty

Twenty thousand and three thousand become


Twenty-three thousand

Reading & writing numbers


How about 23 580 ? Try to put them together.

Million

Hundred

Ten

(Unit)

Thousand Thousand Thousand

Twenty-three
thousand

Hundred

Ten

Unit

Five
hundred

eighty

Remember that there is nothing in the last box!

Reading & writing numbers


How about 23 580 ? Try to put them together.

Million

Hundred

Ten

(Unit)

Thousand Thousand Thousand

Twenty-three
thousand

Hundred

Ten

Unit

Five
hundred

eighty

Our number is:


Twenty-three thousand, five hundred and eighty

Reading & writing numbers


Can you try:
Million

Hundred

Ten

(Unit)

Thousand Thousand Thousand

Hundred

Ten

Unit

Reading & writing numbers


Did you get
Million

Hundred

Ten

(Unit)

Thousand Thousand Thousand

Hundred

Ten

Unit

Two hundred and fifty-one thousand, eight hundred


and fifty-six
and
Three million, six hundred and five thousand and
twenty-nine?

Reading & writing numbers


Can you try?
1 058
12 869
3 010
89 456
725 369
1 256 170

Reading & writing numbers


Remember when we said
Numbers can be written in 2 ways
FIGURES or WORDS.
You can now convert FIGURES into WORDS.
We are now going to look at converting
WORDS to FIGURES.

Reading & writing numbers


A common test question starts with:
Write in figures and then your teacher reads out a
number in WORDS.
Here you have to convert WORDS into FIGURES.

Reading & writing numbers


How could we convert
seventeen thousand and three?
Start with thinking about a place value box.
Think about where you can write in numbers.
Million

Hundred

Ten

(Unit)

Thousand Thousand Thousand

Hundred

Ten

Unit

Reading & writing numbers


How could we convert
seventeen thousand and three?
Seventeen uses 2 boxes as it is 17. Seventeen
thousand will also use 2 boxes, only further to the
left!
Million

Hundred

Ten

(Unit)

Thousand Thousand Thousand


Seventeen thousand

Hundred

Ten

Unit

Reading & writing numbers


How could we convert
seventeen thousand and three?
Fill in the rest of the numbers.

Million

Hundred

Ten

(Unit)

Thousand Thousand Thousand


Seventeen thousand

Hundred

Ten

Unit

three

Reading & writing numbers


How could we convert
seventeen thousand and three?
Try to convert any remaining boxes.

Million

Hundred

Ten

(Unit)

Thousand Thousand Thousand


Seventeen thousand
1

Hundred

Ten

Unit

three
3

Reading & writing numbers


How could we convert
seventeen thousand and three?
Fill in the empty boxes with a 0. Remember, we dont
need anything in the first 2 boxes.
Million

Hundred

Ten

(Unit)

Thousand Thousand Thousand

Hundred

Ten

Unit

Seventeen thousand
1

three
0

Reading & writing numbers


How could we convert
seventeen thousand and three?
So our number is 17003
We put a space every 3 digits from the right,
starting with the decimal point if there is one.
17 003 or 17,003
(remember, some people put a comma instead!)

Reading & writing numbers


Final skills
Minus (-) sometimes comes before a number
If there is a decimal point, we dont use tens,
hundreds, thousands, etc to say the numbers after
the point, we just list the digits
E.g. 17.456 is seventeen point four five six, not
Seventeen point four hundred and fifty-six

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