Title: Place Value
1Place Value
2Place Value Chart
3right
left
The Whole Numbers
The Decimals
4A Place Value Storysung to the tune of Old
MacDonald Had a Farm
5The Place Value Community
When reading place value Think of houses Lined up
in a row
6And in each house are families of three Their
first names are all the same
7Ones, Tens, Hundreds Ones, Tens, Hundreds Ones,
Tens, Hundreds And on it goes All family
members have the same first names Ones, Tens,
Hundreds are they
8The Whole Numbers
Now find the decimal, Then look to the
left Thats where the whole numbers live
9The Units
The Thousands
The Millions
The Billions
Each house has a different family All with a
different surname
(Last name)
10The Whole Numbers
First come the Units Then come the Thousands Then
come the Millions And finally the Billions
11The Whole Numbers
The Units
The Thousands
The Millions
The Billions
No house has a lawn So we use a comma To keep the
families apart
12right
left
The Decimal
To the right of the decimal, The houses are
mirrored So the families reflect those of the left
13The Decimal
They also have family Named Ones, Tens,
Hundreds, Except for that very first house..
14Its a sad story..
15The Units
The Thousands
The Millions
The Billions
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The Thousandths
The first family has No surname
16They never had Ones So there are no Oneths
17To the right of the decimal, There are no Oneths
18The Millionths
The Thousandths
The Billionths
And the surnames all end in T-H
19The Units
The Thousands
The Millions
The Billions
The Thousandths
TENTHS
ONE
TEN
ONES
TENS
ONES
TENS
ONES
TENS
HUNDRED
HUNDREDTHS
HUNDREDS
HUNDREDS
HUNDREDS
The Decimals
The Whole Numbers