Place value3-digit numbers
Name: Date:
Write the digit in the place named.
1ones of 564
2ones of 243
3ones of 972
4ones of 626
5ones of 893
6ones of 973
7ones of 587
8ones of 985
Identifying place value digits worksheets
The tens digit of 347 is 4 — reading a digit straight off its place is the other half of knowing what that digit is worth. These free printable sheets name a place and ask for the digit that sits there.
If they get stuck
Identifying place value digits
The answer key prints on a separate page.
What's on this sheet
This is the inverse of “what is the underlined digit worth”. There the answer for the 4 in 347 is 40; here the question names the place — the tens — and the answer is the bare digit, 4. Reading places from the right, ones then tens then hundreds then thousands, is the whole of it, and a child who answers 40 has read a good question as a different one.
Why this sheet works
No number on these pages contains a zero, anywhere. “The tens digit of 407” has the answer 0, which is a digit a child cannot see the point of writing down — the question stops being about the place it names. Leaving zeros out keeps every question about locating a real digit in a real column.
How this one works
One question from a sheet like this one, worked a step at a time — with a sentence saying what just happened and why.
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