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Arithmetic - Number Sense - Place Value

Study the following chart:


  Let's take a close look at the value 4516:

        THOUSANDS  |   HUNDREDS   |    TENS     |   ONES
       ------------|--------------|-------------|-----------
                   |              |             |             
            4      |       5      |      1      |      6     

  The digit 4 is in the thousands place.

  The digit 5 is in the hundreds place.
  
  The digit 1 is in the tens place.

  The digit 6 is in the ones place.


Here's an example with a value in the thousandths place:

  Let's take a close look at the value 51,736

  TENS THOUSANDS  | THOUSANDS |   HUNDREDS   |      TENS     |     ONES
 -----------------|-----------|--------------|---------------|---------------
                  |           |              |               |
         5        |    1      |      7       |       3       |       6

  The digit 5 is in the ten thousands place.

  The digit 1 is in the thousands place.

  The digit 7 is in the hundreds place.

  The digit 3 is in the tens place.
  
  The digit 6 is in the ones place.

Here's yet another example:

  Let's take a close look at the value 8,267,431

 MILLIONS | HUNDRED THOUSANDS | TEN THOUSANDS| THOUSANDS | HUNDREDS |  TENS  |  ONES  
----------|-------------------|--------------|-----------|----------|--------|----------
          |                   |              |           |          |        |
     8    |        2                 6       |    7      |    4     |    3   |    1

  The digit 8 is in the millions place.
  
  The digit 2 is in the hundred thousands place.
  
  The digit 6 is in the ten thousands place.

  The digit 7 is in the thousands place.

  The digit 4 is in the hundreds place.

  The digit 3 is in the tens place.

  The digit 1 is in the ones place.

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