FACE VALUE vs PLACE VALUE — the same digit, worth different amounts
Class 4-5 · Number Sense › Face value & Place value · ~1 min · 5 slides
ENGLISH VERSION
SLIDE 1 — Same digit, different worth
VISUAL: two numbers side by side, the 5 highlighted in each
BOARD:
4,573 and 5,473
Same digit 5 — is it worth the same?
SPOKEN:
Look at these two numbers — four thousand five hundred seventy-three, and five thousand four hundred seventy-three.
Both of them contain the digit five. But that five is not worth the same amount in both.
SLIDE 2 — Face value
BOARD:
!def Face value
The digit itself — 5 is always just 5
SPOKEN:
The digit itself never changes. Five is five, wherever it sits. That is called its face value.
SLIDE 3 — Place value
VISUAL: place-value columns, the 5 dropping into a different column each time
BOARD:
4,573 → 5 sits in the hundreds place → 500
5,473 → 5 sits in the thousands place → 5000
SPOKEN:
But what it is worth depends on where it sits. In the first number, the five sits in the hundreds place, so it is worth five hundred.
In the second, it sits in the thousands place, so it is worth five thousand. That is its place value.
SLIDE 4 — Where everyone slips
BOARD:
!rule Face value ignores position
Place value depends entirely on position
!warn Asked for place value? Never answer with just "5"
SPOKEN:
So face value ignores position completely. Place value depends entirely on it.
This is the slip — when a question asks for place value, do not answer with just the digit.
SLIDE 5 — Takeaway
BOARD:
!def Remember
Face value = the digit you see
Place value = the digit × the place it stands in
SPOKEN:
Remember it this way — face value is the digit you see, and place value is that digit multiplied by the place it stands in.
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NOTES
- BOARD text = what appears on screen
- SPOKEN text = the narration
- Numbers are spoken as words, never as digits
- !def / !warn / !rule are slide-style markers
- Bank coverage: "Face value & Place value" is one of the largest subtopics
in the question bank (Class 3: 168 Q, Class 4: 544 Q, Class 5: 444 Q)
