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How do you ungroup a 3 digit number? My nephew is working on his homework and I have no clue how to help him.

How do you ungroup a 3 digit number? My nephew is working on his homework and I have-example-1

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In monetary terms, you're making change. If you need more ones, you trade one 10 for 10 ones.

When I was in school, many years ago, we used small superscript-type numbers to show this:

7 3 0 ⇒ 7 2 ¹0 . . . . regrouping to gain 10 ones

7 2 ¹0 ⇒ 6 ¹2 ¹0 . . .regrouping again to gain 10 more tens

You'd have to look at the example problems that precede this page in order to see what the meaning of "magnifying glass" is.

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