My Place

My Place

We can tell who is the leader by seeing the place these runners are in.

We can tell who is the teacher by the place these people are in.

Click on the teacher.

Just like finding the leader or the teacher by looking at the placement of the people, we can tell the value of a digit by looking at the placement of the numerals.

527

5 is in the hundreds place
2 is in the tens place
7 is in the ones place

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369

Click to show the value of the underlined digit.

wpeB.jpg (5453 bytes)

257

Click to show the value of the underlined digit.

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842

Click to show the value of the underlined digit.

6 hundreds, 5 tens, 8 ones

The standard way of writing this number is 658. The place of each digit tells us the value of that digit.

6 5 8
Click on each digit above to see the value of that numeral.

Write the standard form of this number.

9 hundreds, 4 tens, 7 ones

Write the standard form of this number.

6 hundreds, 1 tens, 4 ones

Write the standard form of this number.

1 hundreds, 0 tens, 7 ones

By the place of the flashing red light, I can tell it is time to stop.

Visit this lesson often to practice place value.