Number sense - Place value

You can use place value charts with larger numbers, too! Try it for 2,527,931.

You can use this chart to tell the place and value of all of the digits in this number. For example, the 5 in the hundred-thousands place has a value of 500,000.

​Place value up to the millions place

When you write bigger numbers, you put a comma between each group of three digits. Those groups of three digits are called periods.

The table below shows the number 403,196,825 with the name of each period.

​Number periods