Mathematics

Beginner

50 mins

Teacher/Student led

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A First Look Beyond 1,000: the Thousands

Discover how ten hundreds trade for one thousand and explore the new thousands column. Read and build friendly four-digit numbers using place-value materials and real-world examples from the GAA and everyday life.

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1 Getting Started
2 Watch and Notice
3 Try It Together
4 Write Big Numbers in Your Copy
5 Class Challenge
6 What Did We Notice?
7 What's Next
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Your teacher is running this lesson on the board. Here is the part you can try yourself.

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Place value blocks

1 - Getting Started ~4 mins

Illustration for Getting Started In 1913, the GAA bought the ground we now call Croke Park. It cost £3,500.

Is £3,500 more than a thousand pounds? How many thousands are in it? How many hundreds are left over?

👇 Mark your steps as done as you complete them.

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2 - Watch and Notice ~9 mins

Look at these snapshots of the blocks in the place-value columns. Notice the trade of ten hundred-flats for a thousand-cube, and read each number aloud with me.

👇 Mark your steps as done as you complete them.

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3 - Try It Together ~9 mins

Today we build friendly numbers near a thousand together on the place-value mat. We'll build 1,000, then 1,500, then 2,000 — each time saying how many thousands and how many hundreds it holds before we check.

Build friendly numbers near a thousand

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4 - Write Big Numbers in Your Copy ~3 mins

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In your maths copy, write three big numbers you have seen in real life — a year, a price, or a crowd. Beside each one, write how many thousands it has.

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5 - Class Challenge ~8 mins

Today we build these numbers on the mat, in order: 1,000 → 1,300 → 2,400 → 3,000. Each one adds a wrinkle — watch how the thousands column grows and where the zeros land.

Build the thousands

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Pupil practice

Module 1 · Place Value: Whole Numbers to 1,000 and Rounding Number

Lesson 11 · A First Look Beyond 1,000: the Thousands

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