Place Value Blocks — 123 — free printable diagram

What is 123 in place value blocks?

These base-ten blocks show 123. Reading the columns from the largest block down gives 1 hundred flat, 2 ten rods and 3 one cubes.

Number

123

In words

one hundred and twenty-three

Hundreds

1

Tens

2

Ones

3

• Base-ten blocks show a number as the blocks that make it: single cubes for ones, rods of ten, flats of one hundred and large cubes of one thousand. Counting the blocks in each column gives 1 hundred flat, 2 ten rods and 3 one cubes.
• Written in expanded form that is 123 = 100 + 20 + 3, which is the same information as the blocks with the columns written out.