The multiples of 100
Understand that the multiples of 100 (100–900) each represent a number of hundreds with 0 tens and 0 ones
What a learner can do afterwards
- Identify that 300 means 3 hundreds, 0 tens, 0 ones
- Place multiples of 100 on a number line to 1000
- Read and write multiples of 100 and explain their place-value structure
1 · Read
You already know that a hundred is ten tens. Now let's count by hundreds. Numbers like 100, 200, 300, and so on are called multiples of 100. Each one is some number of hundreds, with 0 tens and 0 ones left over.
Mia packs marbles into bags of 100. She fills 4 bags and has none left outside. She has 400 marbles: 4 hundreds, 0 tens, 0 ones.
Look at the last two digits of the number. A multiple of 100 always ends in two zeros, and those zeros are your clue: 0 tens, 0 ones.
A multiple of 100 is some number of hundreds with 0 tens and 0 ones, and it always ends in two zeros.
More to read
Multiples of a number
Multiples of 100 march in steady steps: 100, 200, 300, all the way to 1000. Each step adds exactly 1 hundred and nothing else.
Every multiple of 100 has 0 tens and 0 ones. The number 300 is 3 hundreds, 0 tens and 0 ones.
Whole number place value review
Place value shows the structure inside each multiple of 100. In 500 the 5 means 5 hundreds while tens and ones rest at 0.
This pattern makes the numbers easy to read and write. Say the hundreds count, then say hundred: seven hundred is 700.
Whole numbers in expanded form review
Expanded form of a multiple of 100 is short. The number 700 is just 700 + 0 + 0. There is only one nonzero part.
On a number line to 1000 the multiples of 100 sit at even gaps. Hopping from mark to mark always adds the same 100.
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