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Place Value Number Changes

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Place Value Number Changes

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🎯 WALT: Find numbers that are 1, 10, 100, 1000, or 10,000 more or less than a given number

Success Criteria:

✓ I can explain how digits change when adding or subtracting these amounts
✓ I can use place value understanding to solve problems
✓ I can check my answers and explain my thinking

📊 Part 1: Quick Changes

1. Find 10 more than 4,567

Answer: ___________

2. Find 100 less than 8,923

Answer: ___________

3. Find 1,000 more than 25,348

Answer: ___________

4. What is 1 less than 60,000?

Answer: ___________

5. Challenge: What is 10,000 more than 87,654?

Answer: ___________

🧠 Part 2: Tricky Boundary Cases

6. What happens when you add 1 to 99,999?

100,000

99,998

100,001

7. Find 100 less than 30,006

Answer: ___________

Hint: Be careful with the zeros!

8. What is 1,000 less than 45,003?

Answer: ___________

9. Explain your thinking for question 8. How did you work it out?

🚀 Part 3: Problem Solving & Extension

10. A school has 23,456 students. If 1,000 more students enrol, how many students will there be?

Answer: ___________ students

11. Extension Challenge: I'm thinking of a number. When I add 10,000 to it, I get 75,000. What is my number?

My number is: ___________

12. Show your working and explain how you solved question 11:
Bonus Challenge: Create your own tricky place value problem for a friend to solve!

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