Use this page when you want 2nd grade place value worksheets in the next thirty seconds: choose how many problems you want, press print, and the answer key comes out on its own page behind the worksheet. The current sheet starts with problems like In 628, the digit in the tens place is □ and In 218, the digit in the tens place is □, and the answers (2 and 1) are printed on the key so marking takes about a minute.
‘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.
Place value is the idea that a digit's position decides its size, and a question like In 628, the digit in the tens place is □ checks that directly. A child who answers 2 without counting positions on their fingers has internalised the structure; one who counts has not, yet.
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 218, the digit in the tens place is □ without recounting.
This sheet uses three-digit numbers, which is wide enough to force real reading of the digits rather than pattern-matching on length — In 221, the digit in the tens place is □ is a fair example of it.
Notice that zeros are included deliberately. A zero holding a place is the concept most often missed, and it is why a question like In 360, the digit in the hundreds place is □ catches children who are counting positions by eye.
In US classrooms these 2nd grade place value worksheets are commonly aligned with the number and operations in base ten strand for this grade, though the exact wording varies from state to state.
| # | Problem | Answer | What to check |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In 628, the digit in the tens place is □ | 2 | Watch for: mixing up tens and ones vocabulary |
| 2 | In 218, the digit in the tens place is □ | 1 | Check: losing track in long numbers |
| 3 | In 266, the digit in the ones place is □ | 6 | Look at: confusing the digit with its value |
| 4 | In 360, the digit in the hundreds place is □ | 3 | Ask about: reading a comma as a decimal point |
| 5 | In 221, the digit in the tens place is □ | 2 | Watch for: skipping the zero |
| 6 | In 554, the digit in the tens place is □ | 5 | Check: counting from the wrong end |
A good first problem to do together is In 628, the digit in the tens place is □, which comes out at 2. Do In 628, the digit in the tens place is □ once with the child narrating, then hand over the pencil and start the clock on the other 20 problems.
The item In 218, the digit in the tens place is □ is worth doing slowly. The answer to In 218, the digit in the tens place is □ is 1, 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.
The answer key is generated with the worksheet, not written by hand, so it always matches the sheet in front of you — In 628, the digit in the tens place is □ is listed as 2, In 218, the digit in the tens place is □ as 1, and so on down the page.
Keys are produced by the same code that produces the questions, so a mismatch between question and answer is not possible on these sheets.
Printing works the same on US Letter and A4, because the layout uses relative widths rather than fixed inches. Set margins to default and scaling to 100%, and all 20 problems fit.
The sheet is laid out to fit one page on both US Letter and A4. Leave the browser scaling at 100% and turn headers and footers off, and the 20 problems land inside the margins on either paper size.
One sheet of 2nd grade place value worksheets a day for two weeks will tell you more about where a 2nd grader actually stands than any single long assessment.
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Last updated: 2026-09-13