If you need place value to hundred thousands 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. A typical problem from the sheet in front of you is In 973,666, the digit in the tens place is □, which works out to 6; another is “In 961,600, the digit in the hundreds place is □”, giving 6.
‘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 973,666, 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.
Nearly every later arithmetic error traces back to place value: misaligned columns, a lost zero, a decimal point in the wrong slot. Ten minutes a day here quietly fixes problems that look like they belong to other topics.
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 six-digit numbers, and a typical line looks like In 405,525, the digit in the ones place is □.
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 961,600, the digit in the hundreds place is □” without recounting.
These place value to hundred thousands worksheets are commonly aligned with the number and operations in base ten strand for this grade, and the skill appears in most curricula somewhere around this point.
| # | Problem | Answer | What to check |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In 973,666, the digit in the tens place is □ | 6 | Watch for: counting from the wrong end |
| 2 | In 961,600, the digit in the hundreds place is □ | 6 | Check: losing track in long numbers |
| 3 | In 848,984, the digit in the hundreds place is □ | 9 | Look at: confusing the digit with its value |
| 4 | In 870,620, the digit in the ones place is □ | 0 | Ask about: mixing up tens and ones vocabulary |
| 5 | In 405,525, the digit in the ones place is □ | 5 | Watch for: reading a comma as a decimal point |
| 6 | In 461,596, the digit in the tens place is □ | 9 | Check: skipping the zero |
Here is one worked through. “In 961,600, the digit in the hundreds place is □” gives 6. If your child arrives somewhere other than 6 on “In 961,600, the digit in the hundreds place is □”, look at the working rather than the answer: nearly every wrong result comes from a skipped step, not an unknown fact.
Take the first problem on the sheet as it stands, In 973,666, the digit in the tens place is □. Work In 973,666, the digit in the tens place is □ out on paper rather than in your head the first few times, say each step aloud, and check the result against 6 on the key before moving on.
The key prints on its own page by default. Uncheck the answer-key box before printing if you would rather keep it back and mark the sheet yourself.
Keys are produced by the same code that produces the questions, so a mismatch between question and answer is not possible on these sheets.
Portrait orientation is what the sheet is designed for. Landscape works but wastes about a third of the paper, so leave the orientation alone unless you have a reason.
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.
Print a sheet of place value to hundred thousands worksheets, run it for 10 minutes, mark it together, and come back tomorrow for a different set of numbers on the same skill.
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Last updated: 2026-09-13