Before a decimal digit can have a value, it has to be found. These free printable worksheets name a place, tenths or hundredths, and ask which digit is sitting in it.
If they get stuck
The answer key prints on a separate page.
This is the first rung of decimal place value, and it is more of a trap than it looks. The word “hundredths” sounds like “hundreds”, and a child who mixes them up will look to the left of the point instead of the right. A page of the same question, with the place named each time, is how that confusion gets found and sorted out.
The answer is a single digit, so the page goes quickly and the marking takes seconds. Once it feels easy, the next step is to say what that digit is worth: the 7 in 3.47 is seven hundredths, which is what the main decimal place value sheet asks.
Which digit is in the tenths of 17.23?
