Place value to 1000 – Year 3 maths worksheet with answers to download as PDF

Write each number shown by the base ten blocks. Then write it in words.

1. Number and words
2. Number and words
3. Number and words

Write the value of the digit named in each part.

1. The first digit of 472
2. The second digit of 605
3. The second digit of 380
4. The third digit of 919

Partition each number into hundreds, tens and ones. For example, 582 = 500 + 80 + 2.

1. 736
2. 490
3. 208
4. 555

Write each number in words or in digits.

1. 234
2. 560
3. 807
4. four hundred and sixteen
5. seven hundred and ninety

Write the number that is 10 more and the number that is 10 less.

1. 346
2. 590
3. 205
4. 700
5. 611

Fill in the missing numbers.

1. 100 more than 235
2. 100 less than 678
3. 100 more than 450
4. 100 less than 902
5. 100 more than 899

Mrs Patel packs sweets for the tuck shop. She puts 100 sweets in each big bag, 10 in each small tub and the rest are loose. She has 4 big bags, 7 tubs and 5 loose sweets.

1. How many sweets does she have in total?
2. Write the number in words.
3. She unpacks one big bag into tubs. How many tubs of 10 does that make?
4. Now she has 3 big bags and 17 tubs and 5 loose sweets. Does she still have 475 sweets? Explain.

The town library has a shelf for each type of book. The table shows how many books are on each shelf.

1. Which shelf has the most books?
2. Which shelf has the fewest books?
3. Write the three numbers in order, smallest first.
4. The library gets 100 new Animal books. How many Animal books are there now?

A football club sells tickets for three stands. The tickets sold are shown in the table.

1. How many tickets did the North stand sell? Write the number in words.
2. The South stand sold 10 more tickets than the North stand. How many?
3. The East stand sold 100 fewer tickets than the North stand. How many?
4. Put North, South and East in order, biggest first.

Zara walks up the tower stairs and counts in 50s on every landing. Her brother Noah counts in 100s on the same landings.

1. Zara says 50, 100, 150, 200, ... Write the next four numbers she says.
2. Noah starts at 0. What is his fifth number?
3. At which number do they say the same number for the first time after 0?
4. Zara counts in 50s to 1000. How many numbers does she say after 0?

Ben saves 4p coins in a jar and counts them in 4s. His sister counts her coins in 8s.

1. Ben has 9 coins of 4p. Count in 4s to find the total.
2. His sister has 6 coins of 8p. Count in 8s.
3. Who has more money?
4. How much more?

The number line shows the bus stop numbers from 0 to 1000 in steps of 100.

1. Which hundreds does the red dot lie between?
2. The dot is at 740. Is it closer to 700 or 800?
3. Estimate where 470 would go.

A baker packs cupcakes in boxes of 10 and trays of 100. A customer orders 3 trays, 2 boxes and 8 single cakes.

1. How many cupcakes does the customer order?
2. The baker has only trays and boxes. She uses 3 trays and 3 boxes. How many cakes is that?
3. Is 328 closer to 300 or 400?
4. Write 328 in words.

Compare each pair. Write <, > or = in the gap.

1. 345 __ 354
2. 609 __ 690
3. 782 __ 728
4. 555 __ 555
5. 399 __ 401

Four friends each think of a 3-digit number. Use the clues to find each number.

1. Mia: "I have 6 hundreds, no tens and an odd digit in the ones place. My number is less than 603."
2. Leo: "My digits are all the same. The sum of my digits is 15."
3. Aisha: "I am 10 more than 289."
4. Sam: "I am 100 less than 1000."

At the seaside arcade, children win paper tokens. Tokens are put in packs of 100, strings of 10 and single tokens. The table shows what four children won.

1. Work out the total number of tokens each child won.
2. Who won the most? Explain how you know.
3. Cara says "I won the same as Dev." Is she right?
4. Put all four totals in order, smallest first.

A mountain railway carries walkers up to the top station. The heights of the five stations above sea level are shown in the table.

1. Which station is the highest and which is the lowest?
2. Put all five heights in order, lowest first.
3. The train climbs 100 metres from Lake station. What height does it reach?
4. A walker says "590 is closer to 600 than to 500." Is she right? Explain.

Mr Evans writes the digits 2, 5 and 9 on cards. He asks the class to make 3-digit numbers using each card once.

1. Write down all six numbers you can make.
2. Which is the biggest? Which is the smallest?
3. How much bigger is the biggest than the smallest?
4. Which of your numbers is closest to 500?

At the school fair, Priya guesses how many marbles are in a jar. The jar holds 427 marbles.

1. Priya guesses 400 and Tom guesses 450. Whose guess is closer?
2. Ali guesses 10 more than 427. What is his guess?
3. Sara guesses 100 less than 427. What is her guess?
4. Put the guesses 400, 450, 437 and 327 in order, smallest first.

A padlock has a 3-digit code. Use the clues to crack it.

• The hundreds digit is 4 more than the ones digit.
• The tens digit is 0.
• The digits add up to 10.

Find the code. Is there more than one possible code? Explain how you know.