1. Place Value

Numbers, such
as 784, have
three digits.

Each digit is a
different place
value.
__________ ___________ ___________
Hundreds Tens Ones

2. Place Value

The first digit is called the hundreds' place.

It tells you how many sets of one hundred
are in the number.

The number 784 had seven hundreds.
7
__________
___________ ___________
Hundreds Tens Ones

3. Place Value

The middle digit is the tens' place.

It tells you that there are 8 tens in addition to
the seven hundreds.
__________
2
___________ ___________
Hundreds Tens Ones

4. 
The last or right digit is the ones' place

In this example, it's 4.
__________ ___________
4
__________
Hundreds Tens Ones

5. 
Therefore, there are 7 sets of 100, plus 8 sets
of 10, plus 4 ones in the number 784.
7 8 4
| | |__ones' place
| |_________tens' place
|________________hundreds' place

6. A different look...
Hundreds tens Ones

7. How many hundreds?
Hundreds Tens Ones
Hundreds Tens Ones

8. 1

9. How many tens?
Tens
Hundreds Tens Ones

10. 2

11. How many ones?
Hundreds Tens Ones

12. 4

13. How many all together?
Hundreds Tens Ones

14. 124

15. TEKS
(1) Number, operation, and quantitative reasoning. The
student understands how place value is used to represent
whole numbers. The student is expected to:
(A) use concrete models of hundreds, tens, and ones to
represent a given whole number (up to 999) in various
ways;
(B) use place value to read, write, and describe the value
of whole numbers to 999;