2nd Grade Place Value: Hundreds, Tens, and Ones Worksheet
Read the hundreds flats, tens rods, and ones units, then write the three-digit number they show.
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- Intervention
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- Grade
- 2nd Grade
- Subject
- Math
- Skill
- Place Value
- Topic
- hundreds, tens, and ones to 999
- Difficulty
- Standard
- Time
- 14 minutes
- Pages
- 2 (incl. answer key)
- Format
- Printable PDF (US Letter)
- Answer key
- Included
- Best for
- homework, morning work, centers, review, intervention
Worksheet details
What This Worksheet Practices
Students will read base-ten blocks showing hundreds, tens, and ones and write the three-digit number.
- Reading base-ten blocks to the hundreds
- Counting hundreds, then tens, then ones
- Writing three-digit numbers, including zeros
Inside This Printable
Student directions: Count the hundreds, tens, and ones. Write the number shown by the blocks.
Worked example
2 hundreds, 3 tens, 4 ones -> 200 + 30 + 4 -> 234.
Sample questions
- What number is shown?
- What number is shown?
- What number is shown?
The PDF contains 5 practice questions plus 2 challenge questions.
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Building bigger numbers
Three-digit numbers extend the same idea students met with tens and ones: each place is worth ten of the place to its right. Ten ones make a rod; ten rods make a hundred-flat. Seeing a hundred-flat as a 10×10 grid helps students believe that 100 really is “ten tens,” which is the foundation for all the regrouping they’ll do later.
How to use it
Count in place-value order: hundreds first, then tens, then ones (200… 230… 234). Pay special attention to numbers like 205, where there are no tens — students must hold that place with a zero. Missing that zero (and writing 25) is the most common error at this level. This builds on tens and ones from first grade.
👩🏫 Teacher note
Count in order — hundreds (100, 200), then tens, then ones. Spend time on numbers with a zero (like 304) so students learn to hold the place with a zero.
🏠 Parent note
Big squares are hundreds, tall rods are tens, small squares are ones. Count them in that order.
Common Mistakes to Watch For
- Forgetting a zero placeholder (writing 34 instead of 304)
- Mixing up which blocks are hundreds versus tens
Answer Key
Each answer shows the three-digit number.
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