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Place Value Building Blocks

Use hundreds, tens and ones to explore three-digit numbers. Show your thinking where space is provided.

Build and read numbers

1.A number is made with 3 groups of 100, 6 tens rods and 2 ones cubes. What number is it?

2.How many hundreds, tens and ones are in 481?

3.Which number is made from 7 hundreds, 3 tens and 5 ones?

4.Choose the correct description of 804.

8 hundreds, 0 tens and 4 ones
8 hundreds, 4 tens and 0 ones
0 hundreds, 8 tens and 4 ones
4 hundreds, 0 tens and 8 ones

5.Write the value of each digit in 653: the 6, the 5 and the 3.

6.Which numbers have 4 in the tens place? Select every correct answer.

7.Match each number to its expanded form.

300 + 0 + 6
500 + 20 + 8
400 + 70 + 0
900 + 10 + 5

Use place value

8.In 729, what is the value of the digit 2?

9.Write the three-digit number with 5 hundreds, 0 tens and 9 ones.

10.Complete the place-value statements for 286: 2 hundreds = , 8 tens = , and 6 ones = .

11.Ten tens rods can be exchanged for one .

12.Describe how to build 638 using the fewest base-ten blocks. Include the number of hundreds, tens and ones.

13.Manaia has 4 groups of 100, 12 tens rods and 3 ones cubes. After exchanging ten tens rods for one group of 100, how many hundreds, tens and ones does she have?