Face & Place Values

The face value of a digit is just what you see, the digit names itself. For example, the digit five in the number 453 has a face value of five. The digit four has a face value of four, and the digit three has a face value of three. What would a list of face values look like?

The place value of a digit in a number is the value of the position that it occupies. Place values consist of powers of ten, starting with an exponent of zero. We often label the base ten place values as units (10⁰ = 1), tens (10¹), hundreds (10²), thousands (10³), etc.