Basic 6Mathematics18 min

Billion Place Value Blocks

Learners use school grant money bundles up to one billion.

Read, write, and represent whole numbers up to one billion.

The school receives a grant in labelled bundles, and the finance prefect must record the total without losing any place.

Billion Place Value Blocks illustration

Learners use school grant money bundles up to one billion.

Represent 3,204,050,600 with place-value blocks.

  1. Build 3 billion blocks, 204 million blocks, 50 thousand blocks, and 600 ones while keeping empty places visible.
  2. Write each group in its place-value column to get 3,204,050,600.