Place value names: 5-digits
for 4th grade

Place value names in 5 digit numbers

Each digit in a number has a specific place value name depending on its position. In our base-10 numeral system, the place values are called, from right to left, units, tens, hundreds, thousands, and so on. We read these place values of a number from right to left and start with the units.

For example, consider the 5 digit number 37,614

• The units place value digit is 4
• The tens place value digit is 1
• The hundreds place value digit is 6
• The thousands place value digit is 7
• The ten-thousands place value digit is 3

This topic asks you to identify the name of the place value of an identified digit in a series of 5 digit numbers. Here are a few examples:

The blue digit of 86,701 is the thousands place digit.

The blue digit of 48,637 is the tens place digit.

The blue digit of 12,528 is the hundreds digit.

The blue digit of 12,359 is the units digit.

This topic asks you to work out the place value name of the highlighted digit in a series of 5 digit numbers.