About this worksheet
Place Value Detective: 3-Digit Numbers samples all four Common Core base-ten standards that 2nd grade covers before operations, 2.NBT.1 through 2.NBT.4. Students read base-ten block pictures as 245 and 307, complete expanded forms such as 706 = ___ + 0 + 6, and write six hundred forty-one and nine hundred four as numerals. Six comparisons follow, including the near-miss pair 900 and 899, then three skip-counting trails by 5s, 10s and 100s. A detective owl closes the page with four clues that pin down the mystery number 782.





