Definition
The thousands place is the fourth position from the right in a whole number. One thousand equals 10 groups of one hundred or 1,000 ones.
If you stack 10 flats of one hundred together, you get a big cube of 1,000. The thousands place tells how many cubes you have.
Examples
- In 3,000, the 3 in the thousands place means 3 groups of one thousand.
- In 4,582, the 4 is worth 4,000.
- 10 hundreds = 1 thousand.