AI Tutor
If you see the number 345 on a race car, how do you read it out loud?
It looks like three separate numbers sitting next to each other, but each spot has a special job.

Places and Values

A digit is any single number from 0 to 9. The position of a digit gives it its place value.
Even though the first digit is just a 3, its spot in the hundreds place means it is worth 300.
The 4 is in the tens place, so it is worth 40, and the 5 in the ones place is worth 5.
How do we put these three pieces together to say the full number out loud?

Reading Out Loud

To read a three-digit number, always start on the left with the hundreds, then read the last two digits together.
So 345 is read as three hundred forty-five.
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