Place Value at the Market
Counting baskets of oranges and loose oranges at a busy Makola market stall.
Represent and read four-digit whole numbers using place value groups.
A trader has packed oranges into crates, baskets, and small bowls. Help her name the total number for her sales record.
Place Value at the Market illustration
Counting baskets of oranges and loose oranges at a busy Makola market stall.
Show 3 thousands, 4 hundreds, 6 tens, and 2 ones.
- Place 3 large crates in the thousands column. Each large crate represents 1,000 oranges.
- Place 4 baskets, 6 bowls, and 2 loose oranges in the next columns. Read the columns from left to right: 3,462.
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Rescue lab
Market bundles before digits
A market helper sees crates, baskets, bowls, and loose oranges before seeing the written price tag.
Draw four columns labelled thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones.
Touch each bundle size and say what one bundle means.
1 crate = 1,000, 1 basket = 100, 1 bowl = 10, 1 loose orange = 1.
Place each bundle under its own column before writing any digit.
Thousands | Hundreds | Tens | Ones keeps every group in one lane.
Write one digit per column and keep empty columns as zero.
6 thousands, 3 hundreds, 0 tens, 5 ones becomes 6,305.
Reading 6,305 as 635 because the tens column is empty.
Ask which column has no bundle but still needs a digit.
Keep the zero in the tens place so the hundreds and ones do not slide.
Naming a digit instead of its value.
Ask what the 8 in 8,241 is worth, not just what it is called.
Point to the thousands column and say 8 thousands equals 8,000.
Build one number with bundles first, then cover the bundles and read only the digits.