ABE Math Tutorials/Whole numbers/Place value

Place value


Number 6,408,554

Notice that the last digit in a number always goes in the ones' place; the second-to-last digit always goes in the tens' place; the third-to-last digit (if there is one) always goes in the hundreds' place; and so on. Look at this number (6,408,554) once again.}}

What is the place value of the 8?: When you look at the table, you can see that the 8 is in the thousands place. What is the place value of the 6?: You can see that the 6 is in the millions place. What is the place value of the 0?:The 0 (zero) is in the ten-thousands place. This means that there are no ten-thousands in this number, but if we left out the zero, we would get an entirely different number (648,554)!

In the table below, the first three numbers on the right-hand side have been separated into their place values. Try writing out the other three numbers into the table (you can print this page off to do this; or just write out the numbers on a piece of scrap paper):

millions hundred thousands  ten thousands  thousands  hundreds  tens  ones

3 4 6 9 1 1 4

4 2 9

7 0 0 0 1

Number 3,469,114 429 70,001 7,280 23 9,879,745

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