More about Base Ten Counting ..
Each "place" in the Base Ten counting system is ten times the value of the place on the right.
The second place value is ten times the first place
value.
The third place value is ten times the second place value.
and so on...
Another way to look at the pattern is to say that the place values go up in "powers" of ten.
NOTE: Any number raised to the power of zero is "1".
Working out the total value of a Base Ten ("Decimal") number ...
| thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 3 | 6 | 7 | |
| 3 x 100 | 6 x 10 | 7 x 1 |
| thousands | hundreds | tens | ones |
| 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 |
| 9 x 1000 | 7 x 100 | 2 x 10 | 0 x 1 |
The process above may seem very obvious to you. It should. You have been doing this sort of conversion all of your life! It is important that you understand the technique for calculating the total value of a number based on its "place" values. You will need this skill when we move on to other "bases" in the next few screens.
