This subject covers foundational quantitative skills and concepts for elementary-level students preparing for the SSAT.
Numbers are everywhere! From counting your toys to measuring your height, numbers help us make sense of the world. Place value tells us what each digit in a number means based on its position.
In the number 3,482:
Knowing place value helps you read, write, and compare numbers easily.
You can use number sense to estimate, round, and even break numbers apart in different ways to make math easier!
When you go shopping, you use number sense to know if you have enough money or how much more you need.
The number 5,607 has a 5 in the thousands place, a 6 in the hundreds place, a 0 in the tens place, and a 7 in the ones place.
If you have 2,345 marbles, the 3 means you have three hundreds, or 300 marbles.
Place value helps us understand what each digit in a number represents.