Rob picked 9 blueberries, and then one more made ten.
After the 99th berry, he’d picked one hundred, and then
he’d picked 999 by the day’s end.
And when Rob found one more on the ground, that made one thousand.
I lived next to a patch of wild blueberries.
Every day I filled my bucket and ate one thousand of these.
After day one, I'd eaten one thousand of them; then 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and then
ten thousand…
20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, ninety thousand berries…
I ate so many of these, it was hard to believe!
But 10 days later what I found out then, I'd eaten 100 groups of one thousand.
(That's 100,000 berries!
Geez, Louise!)
Ten ones make ten.
Ten groups of ten are one hundred.
Ten hundreds make one thousand; the pattern never ends.
Ten thousands make ten thousand.
Ten “ten thousands” make one hundred thousand.
Ten hundred thousands make one million.
The pattern's brilliant!
I hiked a mountain with terraces made by the Incas.
There were more stones in all than I could think of.
So I counted ten stones high and ten thousand across,
which meant each terrace was made of 100,000 rocks.
200, 300, 400, 500, six hundred thousand; 700, 800, nine hundred thousand.
And the tenth terrace up the mountain meant, in all, the stones were one million.
(I hiked all the way to Machu Picchu, and then I knew...)-
Ten ones make ten.
Ten groups of ten are one hundred.
Ten hundreds make one thousand; the pattern never ends.
Ten thousands make ten thousand.
Ten “ten thousands” make one hundred thousand.
Ten hundred thousands make one million.
The pattern's brilliant!
I took my math notebook with me to art and started making a paper mache
place value chart.
First there's the ONES (ones, tens, hundreds!).
Then there’s the THOUSANDS (thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands!).
Then come the MILLIONS (one millions, ten millions, hundred millions!).
I gave my artwork to my teacher, Mrs. Williams.
Then we learned that every place value is ten times the size
of the place value to the right side.
(Then we sang with all our might, at Numberock's website!)
Ten ones make ten.
Ten groups of ten are one hundred.
Ten hundreds make one thousand; the pattern never ends.
Ten thousands make ten thousand.
Ten “ten thousands” make one hundred thousand.
Ten hundred thousands make one million.
The pattern's brilliant!
One thousand thousands make one million One thousand millions make one billion
One thousand billions make one trillion, The base ten system is brilliant
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