Place value is a way of understanding the value of a number. It is based on the place of a digit in a number and its face value. For example, the number 543 has a place value of 500, 40, and 3.
Place Value
What is the value of the digit 4 in the number 5,487?
Place value is the value of a digit in a number, based on its position in the number. For example, in the number 438, the 8 has a place value of 8 and the 3 has a place value of 300. Rounding is the process of estimating a number to a specific place value. Rounding is used to simplify large numbers and make calculations easier. Regrouping is a way of breaking down a number into more manageable parts. In regrouping, different place values, such as tens and ones, are combined to make larger place values, such as hundreds.
Concepts:
What is the value of the digit 8 in the number 8,000?
Can you think of a different way to represent the value of the digit in whole numbers?
What is the place value of 2 in the number 245?
- Tens
- Hundreds
- Ones
- Thousands
What is the place value of 2 in the number 245?
- Tens
- Hundreds
- Ones
- Thousands
What is the place value of 5 in the number 1,057?
- Hundreds
- Tens
- Ones
- Thousands
What is 341 rounded to the nearest hundred?
Work together in pairs: What is the value of the digit 4 in the number 7,432?
What is 438 rounded the nearest ten?