Grade 3

What is a hundred?

hundred

Ten tens grouped together, written 100.

For example

There are one hundred cents in one EC dollar.

In Grade 3

Children bundle ten tens into one hundred with straws or cubes before they write 100.

Watch out for

Children often write one hundred and five as 1005. The zero is there to hold the empty tens place.

Say it at home

Count out one hundred small objects in tens and see how long a hundred really takes.

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