Zero is a place holder. It means there is no value in a place.
1,000 means there is 1 thousand, zero hundreds, zero tens, and zero ones.
What number comes after 7,999?
8,000.
The three zeros are place holders.
8 has the value 8,000.
Practice Problems
Margie says she wrote the number five thousand, fifteen below. Is she correct?
Julia is writing a counting sequence. What’s the next number?
