Road Trip Odometer: Each Place Is Worth Ten Times More

Follow the miles and see how a digit grows when it moves one place left.

Read the odometer

Write the value of the digits.

The Ortiz family is taking a road trip. Their car has an odometer, a meter that counts every mile the car has driven.

When the trip starts, the odometer shows 22,222 miles.

The 2 in the ten thousands place is worth .
The 2 in the thousands place is worth .
The 2 in the hundreds place is worth .
The 2 in the tens place is worth .
Each 2 is worth times as much as the 2 just to its right.

At lunch the odometer shows 46,815. The 6 is worth 6,000. In which number is the 6 worth 10 times as much as that?

A. 4,681B. 406,158C. 61,548D. 604,815

In 1,620, the 6 is worth 600. That is 10 times as much as the 6 in which number?

A. 16,020B. 1,206C. 60,201D. 2,064

Ten times as much

Use place value to find each missing number.

Leo plays a number game in the back seat. Each number is 10 times as much as the number before it.

8 → 80 → → → 80,000
36 → → 3,600 →

The family drives 600 miles on Tuesday. Write 600 in two ways.

600 = hundreds
600 = tens
1 hundred is the same as tens.

On the first day the family drives 350 miles. The whole trip is 3,500 miles. Which sentence is true?

A. 3,500 is 100 times as much as 350.B. 3,500 is 10 times as much as 350.C. 3,500 is 1,000 more than 350.D. 350 is 10 times as much as 3,500.

The drive to the ocean is 2,700 miles. That is 10 times as far as the drive to Grandma's house.

The drive to Grandma's house is miles.
The 7 in 2,700 is worth . The 7 in 270 is worth .

Compare the digits

Think about the place of each digit.

The family sees these numbers on road signs. Is the first digit worth 10 times as much as the second digit? Sort each pair.

Match each number on the left to the number that is 10 times as much. Watch the zeros!

10.

At the end of the trip the odometer shows 9,990. How many times as much is the 9 in the thousands place worth as the 9 in the hundreds place?

A. 10 times as muchB. 9 times as muchC. 100 times as muchD. They are worth the same.

11.

Without multiplying, how can you tell that 5,600 is 10 times as much as 560? Use the places of the digits to explain.