Max Maths, Year 4, Learn together, Counting to 10000 (4)

In the Max Maths curriculum for Year 4, students are encouraged to expand their counting skills by learning to count up to 10,000. A key concept introduced is that counting in thousands can be just as straightforward as counting in ones, tens, or hundreds. To illustrate this, the material uses a visual and tangible example: if you have 10 boards, and each board contains 100 small blocks, you can combine them to create a large block made up of 1,000 small blocks. This large block represents a thousand units.

The learning material guides students through the process of counting in increments of 1,000. It begins with 1,000 (one thousand), then adds another 1,000 to make 2,000 (two thousand), and another to reach 3,000 (three thousand), demonstrating the simplicity of increasing the count by thousands. This approach helps students to understand the concept of place value and the scale of larger numbers. The question posed to students, "Do you know how many small blocks there are in 10 boards of hundreds?" encourages them to apply their understanding of multiplication and place value to ascertain that ten boards of 100 blocks each indeed make up a total of 1,000 blocks.