Place Value for Kids What Is Place Value Place Value for 1 st Graders

place value for kids today we will learn all about place value we will do some activities together to help you become number reading champions first let's talk about the word digit we use the word digit to talk about any number from 0 to 9. in the number 356 there are three digits one two three how many digits are in this number it's three again isn't it one two three numbers can be made up of one digit two digits or many digits each digit in number has something called place value what is place value place value tells us how much each digit in number represents this chart represents the values ones tens and hundreds it's important to learn the value of each digit in number for example the number five in the ones place has value of five but if we move the five to the tens place we now have five tens or the number fifty and if we move that five over one more time to the hundreds place we now have five hundreds or five hundred let's look at number with three different digits this number is 567 and each of those three digits has specific place value let's slide this number into our chart the place value is now listed below each digit this number has the place values in the hundreds tens and ones there are seven ones which equals seven six tens or sixty and five hundreds or five 500 you can also think of this number as 500 plus 60 plus 7 or with place value you will always put the final digit of any whole number in the ones column then all the other numbers will automatically fall into their correct columns if the number only has two digits we again start with the ones column and insert the last number there the 3 in the tens column represents 3 tens or 30 in this number and the 4 in the ones column represents four ones or four we do the same thing if the number is only one digit like in the number six the six gets inserted into the ones column which means this digit represents six ones quick quiz in the number 786 which digit is in the tens place did you say eight that's right there are eight tens or eighty which digit is in the hundreds place did you say seven you got it there are seven hundreds or seven hundred finally how many ones are there bet you said six you're on roll 786 is the same as 700 plus 80 plus 6. so far we've only looked at numbers with three digits let's talk about the place values after hundreds the largest three digit number we have is nine hundred and ninety nine the next number is one thousand and has four digits can you guess what the next place value is named did you say one thousands great job so what do you think the name of the next added place value column is did you say ten thousands if so you're exactly right how about the next one it's hundred thousands can you see the ones tens and hundreds pattern repeating on this next chart we get to one millions place value the pattern then repeats again to ten millions hundred millions and then billions we've practiced assigning place values to different numbers here are few final questions to help you review fill in the blank digit is another word for did you say number awesome true or false the last digit of any whole number always goes in the ones column true no matter how big or small the number the last digit always has ones place value which digit in the number 1472 goes in the tens place value column did you say 7 fantastic work number experts place value is really important tool you'll use this tool to help you add subtract and even multiply and divide numbers hope you had fun learning with us visit us at learnbright.org for thousands of free resources and turnkey solutions for teachers and homeschoolers