Student resources
Grades 1-6
Place Value Chart for Students
Place value explains what each digit means based on its position in a number. It helps students read large numbers, compare numbers, round numbers, and understand decimals.
Key ideas
- Each place to the left is 10 times greater than the place before it.
- Each place to the right of the decimal point is 10 times smaller.
- Commas make large numbers easier to read in groups of three digits.
- Place value is useful for rounding, estimation, money, measurement, and scientific notation.
Whole Number Places
| Place | Value | Example digit in 4,582,106 |
|---|---|---|
| Millions | 1,000,000 | 4 means 4,000,000 |
| Hundred thousands | 100,000 | 5 means 500,000 |
| Ten thousands | 10,000 | 8 means 80,000 |
| Thousands | 1,000 | 2 means 2,000 |
| Hundreds | 100 | 1 means 100 |
| Tens | 10 | 0 means 0 |
| Ones | 1 | 6 means 6 |
Decimal Places
| Place | Value | Example digit in 3.476 |
|---|---|---|
| Tenths | 1/10 or 0.1 | 4 means 0.4 |
| Hundredths | 1/100 or 0.01 | 7 means 0.07 |
| Thousandths | 1/1,000 or 0.001 | 6 means 0.006 |
Practice questions
What is the value of 7 in 7,245?
Calculation: 7 is in the thousands place, so 7 x 1,000 = 7,000
Answer: 7,000
What is the value of 3 in 5.34?
Calculation: 3 is in the tenths place, so 3 x 0.1 = 0.3
Answer: 0.3
Write 6 hundreds, 4 tens, and 2 ones as a number.
Calculation: 600 + 40 + 2 = 642
Answer: 642
Which is greater: 0.5 or 0.05?
Calculation: 0.5 is five tenths and 0.05 is five hundredths
Answer: 0.5