Place Value

Read, write, order and round whole numbers up to 10,000,000, including negative numbers.

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How to solve Year 6 Place Value

Line up the digits by place-value column (millions, hundred thousands, ten thousands, thousands, hundreds, tens, ones).
To round, find the digit in the place you're rounding to, then look at the digit immediately to its right: 5 or more rounds up, 4 or less rounds down.
For negative numbers, remember that on a number line, numbers get smaller the further left you go, so -8 is smaller than -3.

Worked example: Round 6,482,715 to the nearest 100,000.

The hundred-thousands digit is 4 (6,4__,___), so we're deciding between 6,400,000 and 6,500,000.
The digit to its right is the ten-thousands digit: 8.
8 is 5 or more, so we round up.

Answer: 6,500,000

Year 6 Place Value — Frequently Asked Questions

Read, write, order and round whole numbers up to 10,000,000, including negative numbers. This sits within the Number strand of the UK National Curriculum for Key Stage 2 (KS2) maths, and every question is written to match what a Year 6 pupil is expected to know by the end of the school year — not simplified or extended beyond the actual curriculum content for this topic.

This topic has its own question bank mixing easy, medium and hard questions, and you can choose a specific difficulty (or Mixed, for a bit of everything) before starting. Each attempt pulls a fresh, randomised set rather than repeating the exact same questions in the same order, so your child can practise Place Value as many times as they need without the answers becoming memorised rather than understood.

Yes — the KS2 maths SATs, taken at the end of Year 6, assess the full National Curriculum for that year, which includes place value alongside every other topic listed on the Year 6 Maths Challenge page. This practice page isn't formatted as a SATs-style exam paper, but reinforcing the underlying method here — with an explanation every time, right or wrong — builds the same skill a SATs question on this topic would test.

How to solve Year 6 Place Value

Line up the digits by place-value column (millions, hundred thousands, ten thousands, thousands, hundreds, tens, ones).

To round, find the digit in the place you're rounding to, then look at the digit immediately to its right: 5 or more rounds up, 4 or less rounds down.

For negative numbers, remember that on a number line, numbers get smaller the further left you go, so -8 is smaller than -3.

Worked example: Round 6,482,715 to the nearest 100,000.

The hundred-thousands digit is 4 (6,4__,___), so we're deciding between 6,400,000 and 6,500,000.
The digit to its right is the ten-thousands digit: 8.
8 is 5 or more, so we round up.

Answer: 6,500,000

Year 6 Place Value — Frequently Asked Questions