Wednesday, 7 March 2012

How many is 1000?

Young children often give numbers in the thousands when estimating large amounts, but it is apparent that some of them have little idea of how many a thousand actually is. 'Thousands' is a word they used to mean 'many' or 'more than any of the numbers we have been working with'. Some children have been using Unifix to find 1000 and then exploring various representations of this number.

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