What does a million look like?

During maths we talked about a million. What does it look like? Where do we see the word million? What does it mean? What does a million lots of things look like?

There were so many great answers. We found out that a million has 7 digits and that it is a very large. We practiced reading numbers with millions and thousands. We found that after the first number in a million we say the word 'million'. We then read the next three numbers and say 'thousand' after that. Finally we read the last three numbers.

For example:

1 235 778

We say:

one 'million', two hundred and thirty-five 'thousand', seven hundred and seventy-eight. Some of us practiced reading numbers in the millions and some of us practiced reading numbers in the thousands. We all did really well.

After that we practiced breaking numbers into parts. We had to work out how many thousands, hundreds, tens and units in a number.