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Year 6

Read and write numbers up to 10 million

I can read and write numbers up to 10 million.

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Year 6

Read and write numbers up to 10 million

I can read and write numbers up to 10 million.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Numbers can be read and written by identifying the number of millions, thousands and hundreds, tens and ones.
  2. Digits are grouped in threes to show the ones, thousands and millions.
  3. The groups of 3 digits are separated with a comma.
  4. We assume that the digit on the right hand side is the ones digit unless we have a decimal fraction.

Keywords

  • Million - One million is composed of 1,000 thousands. One million is written as a one followed by six zeros.

  • Separator comma - A place value separator comma is used to partition longer numbers to aid in the efficient reading of numbers.

Common misconception

Children who struggle reading/writing teen numbers may struggle to read or write larger numbers. Children may group in threes from the left, rather than the right.

Use a place value chart to support the reading of the numbers. Remember to identify the hundreds, tens and ones first, then group in threes to the right of those.

Use calculators where the numbers given to calculations are presented without separator commas or have spaces in place of the commas. Encourage children to write them with the commas to help them read the number.
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Lesson video

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6 Questions

Q1.
Look at this number written as a numeral 4197 How would the number be written in number words?
forty-one thousand and ninety seven
Correct answer: four thousand, one hundred and ninety seven
four thousand, one hundred and seventy-nine
Q2.
Which of these is the correct way of writing three hundred and sixty-seven thousand as a numeral?
300,67000
300,60,7,000
Correct answer: 367,000
367
Q3.
Write this number, given as a numeral, in words: 65,000
Correct Answer: Sixty-five thousand, Sixty five thousand
Q4.
Which of these is the correct way of writing seven hundred and nineteen thousand as a numeral?
700,19,000
70,019,000
Correct answer: 719,000
7,190
Q5.
Which of the following is 512,00 written in words correctly?
five thousand and twelve
fifty one and two thousand
Correct answer: five hundred and twelve thousand
Q6.
Write this number, given as a numeral, in words: 506,000
Correct Answer: five hundred and six thousand

6 Questions

Q1.
Look at this number made on a calculator display: 3927833 How should it be written using separator commas?
392,783,3
39,278,33
Correct answer: 3,927,833
Q2.
Look at this number: 3659812.9 How should it be written using separator commas and a decimal point?
Correct answer: 3,659,812.9
36,598,12.9
365,981,2.9
Q3.
Laura uses a calculator to work out 1347 × 798 and gets a product of 1074906 Which of these is the correct way to write the product?
107,4906
107,490,6
Correct answer: 1,074,906
10,74,906
Q4.
Jacob has incorrectly written his answer to a calculation as 31,962,12.3 How should he have written this?
319,621,2.3
Correct answer: 3,196,212.3
31,962,12.3
Q5.
Read this number and complete the blank in the sentence. Five , six hundred and thirty-five thousand.
Correct Answer: million
Q6.
Read this number and complete the blank in the sentence. Nine million, one hundred and twenty-four , four hundred and sixty-nine.
Correct Answer: thousand