Place value3-digit numbers
Name: Date:
Write what the underlined digit is worth.
1447
2206
3745
4801
5907
6109
7263
8952
Whole-number place value worksheets
The 4 in 347 is worth forty, and knowing that is what separates reading a number from understanding one. These free printable sheets ask it five ways, with an answer key.
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Whole-number place value
The answer key prints on a separate page.
What's on this sheet
Four of the five questions are the ones a place value sheet has always asked: what the underlined digit is worth, which digit sits in a named place, what that place is called, and the number written out as 300 + 40 + 7. The fifth runs the last one backwards — given 300 + 40 + 7, write the number — and it is the one worth doing last. Saying “three hundred, forty, seven” is easy to do without believing it; writing 347 back from those parts is where a child who does not yet trust the columns writes 3407 instead.
Why this sheet works
The numbers with a zero in the middle are the whole point, so they are dealt on purpose rather than left to luck. 407 and 470 are what place value is about; 358 can be read straight across by a child who has never thought about a column in their life. Every page carries some of the first kind.
How this one works
What is the tens digit worth in 447?
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4→40
- Each column is worth ten times the one to its right. Counting them is what tells you the value; the name on its own is the thing that goes wrong under pressure.
- Count in from the right: the 4 sits in the tens.
- Its VALUE is what it is worth there, not the digit itself: 4 in the tens is 40. That gap between "4" and "40" is the whole of this topic.