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Place Value Detectives

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Place Value Detectives

🔎 Part 1: Read the Number

Remember: a three-digit number has hundreds, tens and ones.

1. Write the number shown by 4 hundreds, 6 tens and 2 ones.
2. Partition 735 into hundreds, tens and ones.

735 = ______ hundreds + ______ tens + ______ ones

3. What is the value of the digit 8 in 584?
4. Match each number to its expanded form by writing the correct letter.
a. 406
b. 690
c. 257
400 + 50 + 7
600 + 90 + 0
400 + 0 + 6

🕵️ Part 2: Solve the Mystery Number

Use each clue carefully. Write the mystery number.

5. I have 3 hundreds, 7 tens and 4 ones. I am ______.
6. I am greater than 520 but less than 530. My ones digit is 6. I am ______.
7. My hundreds digit is 8. My tens digit is 0. My ones digit is 5. I am ______.
8. My expanded form is 700 + 20 + 9. What is my number? Explain how you know.

✏️ Part 3: Number Lines and Expanded Form

9. Complete the number line by counting forwards in tens.

240    250    ______    270    ______    290

10. Complete the number line by counting backwards in ones.

603    ______    601    ______    599

11. Write 918 in expanded form.

918 = __________________________________________

12. Create a three-digit number using 5 hundreds, any tens digit and 3 ones. Write the number and its expanded form.

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