If you need 1st grade place value worksheets that you can print right now, this page builds them for you — 20 fresh problems, an answer key underneath, and no account to create first. Right now the generator is set to problems such as In 67, the digit in the tens place is □ (answer 6) and In 88, the digit in the tens place is □ (answer 8); press the button again and the numbers change while the skill stays the same.
‘New set of problems’ opens the generator in its own tab. There you can change the problem count and turn the answer key on or off. ‘Print or save as PDF’ opens the print dialog — choose Save as PDF in the printer list to keep the file. The sheet fits US Letter and A4, and the answer key prints on its own page.
Reading a number aloud correctly is half the skill. Children who say the digits one by one rather than naming the whole number usually cannot answer In 88, the digit in the tens place is □ without recounting.
This sheet uses two-digit numbers, which is wide enough to force real reading of the digits rather than pattern-matching on length — In 32, the digit in the tens place is □ is a fair example of it.
Place value is the idea that a digit's position decides its size, and a question like In 67, the digit in the tens place is □ checks that directly. A child who answers 6 without counting positions on their fingers has internalised the structure; one who counts has not, yet.
Because the sheet regenerates, the same place is not asked about twice in a row, so the child has to locate the position each time rather than remember where it was on the last sheet, which uses two-digit numbers, and a typical line looks like In 32, the digit in the tens place is □.
Work of this kind is commonly aligned with the number and operations in base ten strand for this grade; schools outside the US meet the same skill at roughly the same age, which is why these 1st grade place value worksheets travel well.
| # | Problem | Answer | What to check |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In 67, the digit in the tens place is □ | 6 | Watch for: skipping the zero |
| 2 | In 88, the digit in the tens place is □ | 8 | Check: counting from the wrong end |
| 3 | In 88, the digit in the ones place is □ | 8 | Look at: reading a comma as a decimal point |
| 4 | In 30, the digit in the tens place is □ | 3 | Ask about: losing track in long numbers |
| 5 | In 32, the digit in the tens place is □ | 3 | Watch for: confusing the digit with its value |
| 6 | In 82, the digit in the tens place is □ | 8 | Check: mixing up tens and ones vocabulary |
The item In 88, the digit in the tens place is □ is worth doing slowly. The answer to In 88, the digit in the tens place is □ is 8, and the route to it is the route every other problem on this sheet takes — which is why the sheet has 20 of them rather than one.
Work In 30, the digit in the tens place is □ out loud as a demonstration. It gives 3. Children who hear In 30, the digit in the tens place is □ reasoned through once at the start of a session make noticeably fewer errors in the ten minutes that follow.
Answers appear next to their question numbers, so a wrong item like In 88, the digit in the tens place is □ can be found in the key in a second and re-worked while it is still fresh.
Because the numbers are random, there is no shared answer list to look up: the key printed behind your sheet is the only one that fits it, and it shows 6 for In 67, the digit in the tens place is □.
If the problems look cramped, drop the count from 20 to a smaller number before printing these 1st grade place value worksheets; the font stays the same size and the spacing opens up.
To save these 1st grade place value worksheets instead of printing them, choose 'Save as PDF' in the printer list. You get the worksheet and the answer key as a single PDF, on Letter or A4 depending on your printer settings.
Keep the finished 1st grade place value worksheets in date order — the drop in time across ten sheets is the clearest progress report you will get.
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Last updated: 2026-09-13