Zeros as Placeholders
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Zeros as Placeholders
Read and Notice
Elijah is saving for a scooter. In the number 306, the zero shows that there are no tens: 3 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones. A zero holds a place so the other digits keep their values.
- 306 cents
- 36 cents
- There are 0 tens.
- There are 0 hundreds.
- There are 0 ones.
Show What You Know
Use place value to think about hundreds, tens, and ones.
Zero Detective
Compare each pair and think about how the zero changes a digit's place value.
- 304 and 34
- 560 and 56
- 123 and 123
- 702 and 72
2 printable pages
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