Place value in big numbers
Big numbers work exactly the same way - each digit has its place.
Ready to have a go? Jump to practice ↓Here’s how it works
Name the place before giving a digit's value.
What we’re exploring
- what each digit is worth in a six-digit number
- how zero keeps a column open in big numbers
- building a big number from its parts
A move one place left makes a digit's value ten times as large.
A little example
What is the value of 8 in 684,205?
- 1
Read the columns: hundred-thousands, ten-thousands, thousands…
- 2
8 is in the ten-thousands column.
- 3
Its value is 80,000.
NOW IT’S YOUR TURN
Have a little go.
Four questions. Plenty of thinking space.
Use paper, then add photos of your workings.
Your pace. Your way. ↘