Place Value to the Millions Song Lyrics

Rob picked nine blueberries and then one more made ten

After the ninety-ninth berry he picked one-hundred

And then he picked nine hundred ninety-nine by the day's end

And when Rob found one more on the ground that made one-thousand

I lived next to a patch of wild blueberries

Every day I filled my bucket and ate one-thousand of these

After day one I'd eaten one-thousand of them

Then two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and then ten-thousand

Twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety-thousand berries

I ate so many of these it was hard to believe

But ten days later what I found out then

I'd eaten one-hundred groups of one-thousand

That's one hundred-thousand berries

Jeez Louise

Ten ones make ten

Ten groups of ten are one-hundred

Ten hundreds make one-thousand

The pattern never ends

Ten thousands make ten-thousand

Ten ten-thousands make one hundred-thousand

Ten hundred-thousands make one-million

The pattern's brilliant

I hiked a mountain with terraces made by the Incas

There were more stones in all than I could think of

So I counted ten stones high and ten thousand across

Which meant each terrace was made of one-hundred thousand rocks

Two-hundred, three-hundred, four-hundred, five-hundred, six-hundred-thousand

Seven-hundred, eight-hundred, nine-hundred thousand

And the tenth terrace up the mountain

Meant in all the stones were one-million

I hiked all the way to Machu Picchu, and then I knew

Ten ones make ten

Ten groups of ten are one-hundred

Ten hundreds make one-thousand

The pattern never ends

Ten thousands make ten-thousand

Ten ten-thousands make one hundred-thousand

Ten hundred-thousands make one million

The pattern's brilliant

I took my math notebook with me to art

And started making a paper mache place value chart

First there's the ones, ones, tens, hundreds

Then there's thousands, thousands, ten-thousands, one-hundred-thousands

Then come the millions, one-millions, ten-millions, one-hundred-millions

I gave my artwork to my teacher Mrs. Williams

Then we learned that every place value is ten times the size

Of the place value to the right side

Then we sang with all our might at Numberock's website

Ten ones make ten

Ten groups of ten are one-hundred

Ten hundreds make one-thousand

The pattern never ends

Ten thousands make ten-thousand

Ten ten-thousands make one hundred-thousand

Ten hundred-thousands make one million

The pattern's brilliant

One-thousand thousands make one million

One-thousand millions make one billion

One-thousand billions make one trillion

The base-ten system is brilliant