Hundreds, Tens, and Ones

2nd Grade MathPlace Value4 pages

About this worksheet

This 2nd grade place value worksheet works one Common Core standard, 2.NBT.1, from blocks to a money challenge. Students read four base-ten block pictures (235, 406, 350 and the plain five-flat 500), fill a hundreds-tens-ones table for 708, 390, 900 and 153 with 642 worked as an example row, and solve five mystery-number riddles. Two riddles need real thought: 10 tens with 0 ones makes 100, and 2 hundreds with 14 tens bundles into 343. The last question trades Leo's 30 ten-dollar bills at the bank for three hundred-dollar bills.

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Curriculum objectives covered

2.NBT.1

“Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, O tens, and 6 ones. Understand the following as special cases: a. 100 can be thought of as a bundle of ten tens ― called a "hundred." b. The numbers 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine hundreds (and O tens and O ones).”

The standard's special cases appear directly: question 12 builds 100 from 10 tens, and question 4 shows 500 as five hundreds with 0 tens and 0 ones.

What's inside this worksheet

Part 1: Count the Place Value Blocks

Four pictured block sets to total. Two hide a zero: 406 has no rods at all, and 500 is flats alone.

Part 2: Place Value Chart

A table splitting 708, 390, 900 and 153 into their digits, with 642 filled in as the model.

Part 3: Mystery Numbers

Five clue riddles. Number 14 hands students 14 tens and asks them to bundle ten of them into a hundred, landing on 343.

Part 4: Place Value Challenge

Leo takes 30 ten-dollar bills to the bank. Students work out the three hundred-dollar bills and explain how they know.

Answer key

Digit breakdowns for every row and the bundling reasoning for questions 12, 14 and 15.

How teachers use it

Play money beats blocks

Run question 15 with paper tens and hundreds at a pretend bank desk. Trading 30 tens for 3 hundreds sticks better than a drawing.

Zero watch

Questions 2, 4 and 8 all contain a zero digit. Collect these three first; they predict who will struggle with 700 - 346 later.

Riddle 14 as the stretch

Most of the page suits everyone, but 2 hundreds and 14 tens is genuine bundling. Save it for the discussion, not the grade.

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