Year 6 Multiples of 1,000 worksheet

“Building ten thousand” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 6 maths unit “Multiples of 1,000”, for children aged 10 to 11, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 7 to 8 of the year, 10 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Building ten thousand

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 6 · Maths · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can explain how ten thousand can be composed from thousands.

A Look back3 min

1.
6000 + 324 =
2.
8 tens is
3.
4,520 4,250

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ten jumps of 1,000 make 10,000. Count the jumps on this line.

Watch me

Each jump is 1,000.

Ten jumps of 1,000 land on 10,000.

So 10 thousands are equivalent to 10,000.

Now you

1.
How many 1,000s make 5,000?

C Your turn5 min

1.
How many 1,000s make 3,000?
2.
How many 1,000s make 6,000?
3.
How many 1,000s make 9,000?
4.
How many 1,000s make 10,000?

Say it out loud: What changes in each row? What stays the same? Why does the answer get bigger?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A wooden metre stick lying along a garden path beside a flowerbed in bright sunshine

Kit says: “10,000 millimetres is the same length as 10,000 miles, because they are both 10,000.”

1.
How many metres is 10,000 millimetres?

E Think deeper4 min

1.
Write every whole number from 1 to 20 that gives an answer under 10,000 when you multiply it by 1,000. Then say how you know.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Building ten thousand · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. 6324

2. 80

3. >

B

1. 5 If your child writes 50, they have counted tens, not thousands. Count the 1,000 jumps from 0 to 5,000 one at a time.

C

1. 3 If your child writes 30, they have counted tens. Each jump on this line is 1,000, so count the jumps to 3,000.

2. 6

3. 9

4. 10

D

1. 10 If your child divides by 100, they are treating a metre as 100 millimetres. A metre is 1,000 millimetres. Ask how many millimetres make one metre.

E

1. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Each is under 10 thousands, and 10 × 1,000 is exactly 10,000, so it is not under. If your child includes 10, ask what 10 × 1,000 makes. Then ask which numbers are less than 10 thousands.

Words to use

Say“Which unit are we counting in? What stays the same when the unit changes?”

Instead of“Just tell them 10,000 is always the same size, so it must be the same whatever it measures.”

After the sheet

Fill a 1 litre jug with water, which is 1,000 millilitres. Ask how many jugs make 10,000 millilitres, then how many make 10,000 litres.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

9 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Building 100,000 in groups(with a plan)
Big numbers with commas(with a plan)
Reading big numbers(with a plan)
Positioning on a 100,000 line(with a plan)
Places on a million line(with a plan)
Counting over the boundary(with a plan)
Splitting 10,000 fairly(with a plan)
Parts of 100000(with a plan)
Reading scales and gridlines(with a plan)

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