What are hundreds of thousands?

Hundreds of thousands are a lot, so many that it’s hard to imagine them all at once.

Imagine you have a big toy box full of tiny blocks, like LEGO bricks. If you had 100, that's just one shelf of blocks. But if you had 100,000, that would be like stacking those shelves high enough to touch the ceiling, and then some! That’s what a hundred of thousands is: it’s like having a whole room full of tiny toys, all lined up neatly.

• If you had 200,000 candies in your backpack, you’d need two huge bags to carry them all.
• A school with 500 students would have 200 schools if there were 100,000 kids.

It's like counting all the cars on a very busy highway, and then some! Hundreds of thousands are a lot, so many that it’s hard to imagine them all at once.

Imagine you have a big toy box full of tiny blocks, like LEGO bricks. If you had 100, that's just one shelf of blocks. But if you had 100,000, that would be like stacking those shelves high enough to touch the ceiling, and then some! That’s what a hundred of thousands is: it’s like having a whole room full of tiny toys, all lined up neatly.