MathsYear 3Number & Place Value

Place value in 3-digit numbers

Learn Place value in 3-digit numbers for Year 3 pupils (ages 7–8). Free practice questions, lessons and worked examples — aligned to the UK National Curriculum.

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine you have 246 straws. You bundle them into groups of 10 — you get 24 bundles of ten, but wait, that's too many! Let's bundle the tens into hundreds too.

  2. 2

    How many hundreds are in 246?

  3. 3

    Build 352 by dragging the hundreds, tens and ones.

  4. 4

    Let's read the number 418 together.

  5. 5

    What digit is in the tens place in 573?

  6. 6

    Now try building 609 — pay attention to the tens!

  7. 7

    What is 300 + 40 + 5?

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