Place Value to the Millions with Expanded Form Lyrics

Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ooh

Look at five million-three thousand-twenty four

We can write the number out in word form

Or show it on a place value chart

Or with expanded form break each place value apart

Five groups of one million is five million, you see

Three thousands is three thousand, and two tens is twenty

Four units makes four; so the expanded form

is five million plus three thousand plus twenty plus four

Now check it out

We can say a number's name or write it out on a chart

We can take each place value and then we can break it apart

When we want to define numbers written this way

We've learned the term, expanded form

So that's what we say

First there's the units

Ones, tens, hundreds

Then there's the thousands

One thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands

Then come the millions

One millions, ten millions, hundred millions

And when we get that far

We're getting real close to the billions

The ones

Ones, tens, hundreds

Then there's the thousands

One thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands

Then come the millions

One millions, ten millions, hundred millions

And when we get that far

We're brushing up against the billions

One hundred million fifty thousand forty-eight

The word form is what we speak to communicate

Or we can fill in a place value chart

Or with expanded form, break each place value apart

There's just one group of one hundred million, you see

Five ten thousands is fifty thousand, and four tens is forty

Eight ones makes eight, so the expanded form equates

To one hundred million plus fifty thousand plus forty plus eight

Now check it out

We can say a number's name or write it out on a chart

We can take each place value and then we can break it apart

When we want to define numbers written this way

We've learned the term, expanded form

So that's what we say

First there's the units

Ones, tens, hundreds

Then there's the thousands

One thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands

Then come the millions

One millions, ten millions, hundred millions

And when we get that far

We're getting real close to the billions

The ones

Ones, tens, hundreds

Then there's the thousands

One thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands

Then come the millions

One millions, ten millions, hundred millions

And when we get that far

We're brushing up against the billions

The digits in big numbers are in groups of three places

Groups of three are called periods, and we put commas in the spaces

And we put commas in the spaces

From right to left we can label them ones, thousands, millions

With a large enough number, it goes on beyond the billions

And now's the time for one final line

About the base ten number system's design

Every place to the left is worth ten times more

Than the one that comes before

And each period we move left

Is one thousand times greater

With this knowledge you now possess

You can become a human calculator