Place Value Worksheets
Free printable place value worksheets. Expanded form, standard form and digit value questions on four-digit numbers, with an answer key.
Three kinds of place value question on one sheet: write a number in expanded form, read an expanded form back as a number, and say what a single digit is worth. Mixing them is the point - a student who can expand 4,321 on request but stalls when handed 4,000 + 300 + 20 + 1 has learned the procedure rather than the idea.
Numbers are four digits by default, which reaches the thousands column. Change Number of Digits for anything from two to five, or pick a single question type above to drill one of the three on its own.
What this worksheet covers
- Write a number in expanded form and back again
- Give the value of a digit from its place
Common Core standards
- 4.NBT.A.2 Read, write and compare multi-digit whole numbers, including in expanded form.
Frequently asked questions
What is place value?
The idea that a digit's worth depends on the column it sits in - the 7 in 5,724 is worth 700, not 7. Everything in multi-digit arithmetic rests on it.
What grade is place value taught in?
It starts in first grade with tens and ones and builds through fourth, where numbers reach the hundred thousands and beyond.
Can I drill just one kind of question?
Yes - pick Expanded Form, Standard Form or Digit Value above and the whole sheet will be that one.
How do you read a four-digit number aloud?
Say the thousands, then the rest as a three-digit number: 4,321 is four thousand, three hundred twenty-one. A place holding a zero is skipped, so 4,021 is four thousand twenty-one.