5th Grade, Module 1: What are Large Numbers?
How far is moon from earth? What is the speed of light? How many cells are there in the human body?
The answers to these questions are numbers that go way beyond 10’s or 100’s.
This chapter gives us an idea about numbers beyond 1000. In this chapter, we learn about
The role of place values and face values in number system
Expressing numbers in expanded notation.
Comparison of numbers and their arrangement in order of size.
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