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5-digit numbers
After 9999 comes 10,000. The next place is the ten-thousands.
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Number Concept
📖 Study · Number Concept (Grade 4)
Number Concept (Grade 4)
5- and 6-digit numbers, place value, comparing and rounding.
🎯 What you'll learn
- ✓Read 10,000+ in words
- ✓Place value to ten-thousands
- ✓Compare and round large numbers
- ✓Recognise patterns in numbers
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Reading big numbers
12,345 = twelve thousand three hundred forty-five.
12,345
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Compare
Look at the leftmost digit first. 56,789 < 56,798 (compare ones at the end).
56,789 < 56,798
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Rounding
Round 38,742 to nearest 1000: digit after thousands is 7 → round up → 39,000.
38,742 → 39,000
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Toward a million
100,000 = one hundred thousand. 1,000,000 = one million.
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