🔟 Place value & big numbers

Unit 1 · Everyday maths · 8 min

Each place is 10× the one to its right: ones, tens, hundreds, thousands… 1,250,000 = one million two hundred fifty thousand. Chinese groups by 万 (4 digits); Arabic and English group by thousands.

Words in this lesson

• 1,000 — one thousand
• 10,000 — ten thousand
• 1,000,000 — one million

Project: Look up the populations of Egypt, China and your city and read them in three languages.