Definition
Place value is the value of a digit based on its position in a number. Each place in a number is worth 10 times more than the place to its right.
Imagine a number as seats on a bus. Each seat (place) has a different value. The farther left a digit sits, the bigger its value becomes: ones, tens, hundreds, thousands.
Examples
- In 52, the 5 is in the tens place so it means 50.
- In 347, the 3 is in the hundreds place, the 4 is in the tens place, and the 7 is in the ones place.
- In 1,206, the 1 is worth 1,000.