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What place value means

What place value means

Place value chart of 36.482 showing columns from ten-thousands to thousandths and the value of each digit

A digit is one symbol from 000 to 999, but a number can have many digits. Place value means the value a digit has because of its position in a number.

Place Value Lesson

  1. IGCSE
  2. /Maths
  3. /Place Value

Step-by-step lessons covering CIE IGCSE Maths Place Value for Core and Extended tier. Each lesson works through exam-style questions in Paper 1 and Paper 3 (Core) or Paper 2 and Paper 4 (Extended) format. Start with the Core-tier fundamentals in number and algebra before moving on to the more demanding Extended-only topics like calculus-adjacent algebra and advanced trigonometry.

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