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Set off on a journey full of big numbers — kilometres on signboards, seats on a train, people in a town. Once you know each digit’s place, even a huge number becomes easy to read. Tap each idea to explore it.
Play with it
A big number is just digits sitting in the right seats. Tap each term to see what it means, with a friendly example from our journey.
Learn
Worked example. A signboard reads 45,678. Name the place of each digit.
5 ten thousands (40,000), 5 thousands (5,000), 6 hundreds (600), 7 tens (70), 8 ones (8). So 45,678 = 40,000 + 5,000 + 600 + 70 + 8.
Worked example. Write “twenty thousand forty” in figures and expanded form.
Twenty thousand = 20,000; forty = 40. So the number is 20,040 = 20,000 + 40 (no thousands, hundreds shown — they are 0).
Worked example. Put 8,090 · 8,900 · 8,009 in order, smallest first.
All have 8 thousands. Compare hundreds: 8,009 (0) < 8,090 (0 hundreds, 9 tens) < 8,900 (9 hundreds). Order: 8,009, 8,090, 8,900.
Where you’ll meet it
The little number wheel on a bus shows how many kilometres it has travelled — often tens of thousands. Reading place value tells you at a glance whether it says 45,678 km or 4,567 km.
A small town might have 38,500 people. Comparing two towns’ numbers tells you which is bigger — and rounding to “about 40,000” makes it easy to remember.
Coach and seat numbers, PNRs and fares are all numbers we read every journey. Knowing places keeps you from boarding seat 12 instead of 21.
Check yourself
Ten friendly questions — mostly multiple-choice with one little story problem — to check that you can use place value, not just remember it.
Interactive built to the OpenMAIC approach (THU-MAIC, MIT). Content from the NCERT Class 5 Maths Mela textbook (ncert.nic.in).
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