What this covers
Place Value is taught in Grade 2 (age 7 to 8) as a main teaching focus. It sits in the Number strand.
Worked example
What is the value of the digit 7 in the number 4,729
- Identify the place of each digit from right to left: 9 is ones, 2 is tens, 7 is hundreds.
- The digit 7 represents 7 hundreds.
- Write this value in figures: 700.
Answer: 700
Difficulty scale
The sheet generator offers five difficulty settings for this topic.
- Identifying tens and ones in 2-digit numbers with visual base-ten blocks
- Value of digits in 3-digit numbers and expanded form
- Value of digits and partitioning in 4-digit numbers up to 10,000
- Working with numbers up to 1,000,000 including flexible partitioning
- Large numbers up to 10,000,000 including powers-of-ten multipliers
Common mistakes
- Writing the face value instead of the place value (e.g., saying the value of 7 in 72 is 7 rather than 70)
- Omitting zero as a placeholder when converting written forms to digits
Curriculum links
Indicative matches to Common Core State Standards. Check wording and codes against the official document.
- 2.NBT.A.1 Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones.
- 2.NBT.A.4 Compare two three-digit numbers based on the meanings of the hundreds, tens, and ones digits.