CHAPTER III READING AND WRITING NUMBERS 1. One hundred one is written 101. Write in figures: one hundred four; one hundred seven. 2. The hundreds are written 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900. 3. Read: In a poultry yard there were 415 hens which had laid 365 eggs. 240 of these eggs were bought by the grocer. 4. Read; then write from dictation: 109, 110, 308, 315, 506, 348, 836, 941, 707, 888. The largest number of three figures is 999. The next number is one thousand, 1000. The first figure on the right is called the ones' figure; the next is the tens' figure; the next is the hundreds' figure; the next is the thousands' figure. Thus, 625 is read 6 hundred 25. Write in figures: 5. Four hundred two. 6. Four hundred twenty. 7. Six hundred ninety. 8. Seventy-three. 9. Six hundred six. 10. One thousand. |