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Place Value: Whole Numbers

📋 What it is

Each digit's value depends on its place; each place is 10× the one to its right.

🗣️ Coach says

The same digit means different amounts depending on WHERE it sits. In 3,000 the "3" is three thousand; in 300 it's three hundred. Every place is ten times the place to its right — that's the whole trick of our number system.

🧠 Memory hook

Move one place LEFT = ×10 (ten times bigger). One place RIGHT = ÷10.

😂 Giggle

Why was 6 afraid of 7?
Because 7 8 9!

😲 Whoa!

Our base-10 system likely comes from a very old counting tool: your ten fingers.

✅ Quick check: In the number 4,725, what is the value of the 7?

Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.

🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)

Write your age, then add a 0 to the end. It just got ten times bigger — that's a place shift.

⭐ Do the round to earn your star →
🤸 Brain break: Place-steps: take one step left saying "times ten!", one step right saying "divide by ten!"