Reading and Writing Big Numbers: The Sticker Shop

At the Sticker Shop, Zoe and Mia sell stickers in big boxes of 1,000 and sheets of 10. Every order is written in words and in digits, so nobody gets mixed up!

Remember: Read a big number in two parts: the thousands, then the rest. 2,040 is “two thousand forty”. When a place is empty, write a 0 to hold it: two thousand forty has no hundreds, so the hundreds place gets a 0.

Magic trick: Draw four little boxes for thousands, hundreds, tens and ones, then fill each box. An empty box gets a 0, and the comma goes after the thousands box.