Place Value Blocks — 999 — free printable diagram

What is 999 in place value blocks?

These base-ten blocks show 999. Reading the columns from the largest block down gives 9 hundred flats, 9 ten rods and 9 one cubes.

Number

999

In words

nine hundred and ninety-nine

Hundreds

9

Tens

9

Ones

9

• 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 9 hundred flats, 9 ten rods and 9 one cubes.
• Written in expanded form that is 999 = 900 + 90 + 9, which is the same information as the blocks with the columns written out.