How a Place Value Chart Reveals a Digit’s Position in a Number

The whole number part of a place value chart deals with everything to the left of a decimal point in a number or decimal number.

Starting from the right, the first column on a place value chart with no decimal point is the ones place, followed by the tens place, hundreds place, thousands place, ten thousands place, hundred thousands place and extending up to the billions place or beyond.

Each position to the left increases the value of the digit ten times over the position to its right. For example, in the number 5,674, the digit 4 is in the ones column, 7 in the tens column, 6 in the hundreds column and 5 in the thousands place.