Place Value: Hundreds

🎯 What You'll Learn

You will learn about the hundreds place, so you can understand three-digit numbers like 100, 250, and 500.

🏪 Market Story

Bola's mother gives her ₦500 to buy food at the market. The ₦500 note has three digits. Bola thinks: the 5 is in the hundreds place, which means 5 hundreds, or 500. If she had ₦235, that would be 2 hundreds (200) + 3 tens (30) + 5 ones (5) = 235.

📝 Let's Learn

In a three-digit number like 347:

• The first digit (3) is in the hundreds place = 300
• The middle digit (4) is in the tens place = 40
• The last digit (7) is in the ones place = 7
• 347 = 300 + 40 + 7

Example 1: 162 = 100 + 60 + 2. The 1 means one hundred, the 6 means sixty, and the 2 means two.

Example 2: 500 = 500 + 0 + 0. There are 5 hundreds, 0 tens, and 0 ones.

Example 3: What number has 4 hundreds, 0 tens, and 8 ones? 400 + 0 + 8 = 408.

✏️ Practice Questions

1. In the number 729, what does the 7 mean? What does the 2 mean? What does the 9 mean?
2. A number has 3 hundreds, 5 tens, and 1 one. What is the number?
3. Emeka has a ₦200 note, a ₦50 note, and ₦5 in coins. How much money does he have in total?

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1. The 7 means 700 (7 hundreds), the 2 means 20 (2 tens), the 9 means 9 (9 ones).
2. The number is 351. 300 + 50 + 1 = 351.
3. Emeka has ₦255. ₦200 + ₦50 + ₦5 = ₦255.

💡 Remember

Three-digit numbers have hundreds, tens, and ones. The hundreds place is worth the most. Understanding place value helps you read and write bigger numbers, especially when handling Naira!