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Counting in big jumps

You learn to count on and back in jumps of 100, 1,000 and 10,000.

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How to work it out

  1. Look at which digit changes with each jump: the hundreds for 100, the thousands for 1,000.
  2. The other digits stay the same.
  3. If a digit goes past 9, the digit in front of it goes up by one.

Count on in jumps of 100: 2,350; 2,450; 2,550; …

  1. Look at which digit changes: the hundreds digit goes 3, 4, 5.
  2. The other digits stay the same.
  3. The next hundreds digit is 6.
  4. So 2,650.
More examples

Count on in jumps of 1,000: 8,200; 9,200; …

The thousands digit goes past 9: 10,200.

Count back in jumps of 10,000: 45,000; 35,000; …

25,000.