Place value worksheets
Nine four-digit numbers to break into thousands, hundreds, tens and ones. Watch for the zeros.
Best fit: 2nd–4th grade · 8 sheets, answer keys included · Free, no sign-up
The full set: 8 worksheets with answer keys
Eight sheets in the same layout with different problems: download them as one PDF or print one at a time.
Worksheets
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Sheet 1
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Sheet 2
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Sheet 3
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Sheet 4
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Sheet 5
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Sheet 6
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Sheet 7
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Sheet 8
Answer keys
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Sheet 1 answers
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Sheet 2 answers
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Sheet 3 answers
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Sheet 4 answers
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Sheet 5 answers
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Sheet 6 answers
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Sheet 7 answers
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Sheet 8 answers
About these worksheets
Naming each digit’s place is the exercise that makes big numbers stop being pictures: 7,050 is 7 thousands, 0 hundreds, 5 tens, 0 ones — and those zeros are exactly where children stumble. Numbers with a zero in them turn up on most sheets in the set; when one does, check that the child writes the 0 instead of skipping the place. Use the sheets alongside the place value chart: chart to build the idea, worksheet to test it without the scaffolding.
Grade level: these worksheets are part of our 2nd grade math worksheets collection.
Frequently asked questions
What about numbers with a zero in the middle?
That’s the hard case — a zero must be named as “0 hundreds”, not skipped. They come up at random and a sheet can have none, so when that happens, write one like 6,090 on the board as an extra.
What grade is 4-digit place value?
Common Core covers numbers to 1,000 in 2nd grade and multi-digit numbers up to 1,000,000 in 4th, so four-digit place value is 4th-grade core; some states, Texas among them, start it in 3rd grade. Second graders who are solid on hundreds can use the sheets as a stretch.
What does the comma in 7,050 do?
It separates the thousands digit from the hundreds, tens and ones, so on these sheets the digit before the comma is always the thousands. In bigger numbers each comma starts a new group of three, thousands and then millions, which the place value chart lays out.