Exploring Digit Relationships and Place Value

This video tutorial explains how the value of a digit changes as it moves across a place value chart. It uses base 10 blocks to illustrate the relationships between digits and their place values, emphasizing the concept of multiplying by ten to increase value. Common misconceptions are addressed, and practical examples are provided, particularly using the number 5, to demonstrate how digit values increase as they shift left on the chart. The lesson concludes with a summary of key points.

What do ten individual squares represent in base 10 blocks?

• One hundred

• One thousand

• Ten

• One

If you multiply ten groups of ten, what do you get?

• One million

• One hundred

• One thousand

• Ten thousand

How much larger is one hundred compared to ten?

• Ten times larger

• Five times larger

• Fifty times larger

• Twenty times larger

What is a common mistake students make with the number 32,586?

• Thinking the 5 has a place value of five

• Thinking the 3 has a place value of three

• Thinking the 2 has a place value of two

• Thinking the 8 has a place value of eight

What is the value of ten groups of one thousand?

• One hundred

• One thousand

• Ten thousand

• One million

How many times larger is one million compared to one hundred thousand?

• Five times larger

• Ten times larger

• Twenty times larger

• Fifty times larger

What happens to a number each time you add a zero to it?

• It becomes 50 times bigger

• It becomes 5 times bigger

• It becomes 10 times bigger

• It becomes 20 times bigger

If a digit 5 is in the tens place, what is its value?

• 5

• 5000

• 50

• 500

What is the value of a digit 5 in the hundred thousands place?

• 5

• 50

• 500000

• 5000

If you multiply 50 by 10, what do you get?

• 50000

• 50

• 5000

• 500