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The multiples of 100

Understand that the multiples of 100 (100–900) each represent a number of hundreds with 0 tens and 0 ones

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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

The lesson

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.

01002003004005006007008009001000
Hop by hundreds: 100, 200, 300, all the way up to 900.
Try it together

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.

Good to know

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.

Watch it

Where it sits

Where this leads

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Then practise

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The multiples of 100 · Mathematics, ages 7 to 8 · LightMySky