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Know Your Numbers: Alternative Numbers

In this worksheet, students write numbers given in alternative formats in a more standard way.

'Know Your Numbers: Alternative Numbers' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 2

Year:  Year 5 Maths worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Number: Number and Place Value

Curriculum subtopic:   Know Numbers to 1 000 000

Difficulty level:  

Worksheet Overview

Sometimes you may hear people using numbers in alternative formats, such as:

 

"There were about 35 hundred people in the theatre".

 

35 hundred is the same as 35 x 100 = 3500 or three thousand five hundred.

 

Example 1

Change 32 tens into a proper number

 

Answer

32 x 10 = 320

 

Example 2

Write 523 hundred in the normal way

 

Answer

523 x 100 = 52300

 

 

 

 

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