Number Sequence upto 10,000

UNIT−2

NUMBERS

Number Sequence upto 10,000

The transport department on Thursday announced that 10,000 special bus services will be operated from November 3 to 5 to accommodate the passengers during the Diwali season.

Of 9, 967 special services, 6, 367 buses will run from Chennai to other districts and 3,600 will run within the districts.

Children,

From the above paragraph, let us discuss the following questions.

What does this text talk about?

What is special about the festival?

How many of you will go to your relatives home?

How many of you would travel to other places during festivals?

What do these numbers convey us?

Can you group numbers as.

Just like everything in the world, numbers too have a number name.

Numbers have names.

In 1st grade, you have studied number names up to 20. Now we will learn names of larger numbers. You have already learnt the number − names from 1 to 20 and also number−names of 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 and 100.

EXAMPLE

Write 1283 in words.

Solution

First write the given number in expanded form and write the name of each number below it and then combine that name.

1283 = 1000 + 200 + 80 + 3

= One Thousand + Two hundred + Eighty + Three

So the number−name of 1283 is one thousand two hundred and eighty three.