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Mastering Place Value

Read each question carefully. Use Australian number names and show your working where asked.

Place-value positions

A kite festival team recorded the number of visitors shown in the chart. Use the chart for the questions below.

Thousands

Hundreds

Tens

Ones

Number

6,209

1.In the chart, what is the value of the digit 2 in 6,209?

2
20
200
2,000

2.In the chart, what does the zero in 6,209 tell you?

There are no tens
There are no hundreds
There are no ones
The number has no thousands

3.Which number has 4 in the hundreds place?

7,043
7,430
7,304
7,034

4.Which numeral has 8 thousands, 1 hundred, 5 tens and 3 ones?

8,153
8,513
8,135
8,315

Read, write and expand

Write each answer clearly. Remember that zero can hold a place in a numeral.

5.Write 8,016 in words.

6.Write 12,405 in words.

7.Write 9,070 in words.

8.Write 7,582 in expanded form, showing the value of each non-zero digit.

9.Write 14,306 in expanded form, showing the value of each non-zero digit.

10.Write the numeral for nine thousand and twenty-five.

11.Write the numeral for six thousand, three hundred and eight.

12.Write the numeral for eleven thousand, forty-two.

Use place value to reason

Show how you know. Use the place names and digit values in your explanations.

13.At a kite festival, Mei counts 3,472 visitors. State the value represented by each digit: 3, 4, 7 and 2.

14.Charlie records 5,084 kite-festival tickets sold. If the zero were removed to make 584, how much smaller would the numeral be? Explain the place-value change.

15.Mason is making a four-digit kite-festival code. It must have 6 in the thousands place, 2 in the hundreds place, 0 in the tens place and 9 in the ones place. Write the code and its expanded form.