Place Values

Specific Place Values

Numbers, such as 84, have two digits.  Each digit is a different place value.

The first digit is the ten's place.  It tells you that there are 8 tens in the number 84.

The right digit is the one's place which is 4 in this example.  Therefore, there are 8 sets of 10, plus 4 ones in the number 84.

 

   8 4
   | |__one's place
   |_________ten's place