3rd Grade Place Value to 10,000 worksheets

About this worksheet

Place value to ten thousand asks students to coordinate four positions at once: thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones. Third graders may read the digits correctly but still confuse a digit with its value, such as saying the 6 in 6,482 is six instead of six thousand. This worksheet avoids generic number reading and focuses on the exact place-value structure named in the title. Students match word form and expanded form, identify the value of a digit, compare numbers that share their first digit, and reason about how changing one place changes the whole number.

Support versions use numbers below 5,000 with no zeros. Standard versions add word form and adding 10 or 100 across a place. Challenge versions use zeros inside the number, crossing a thousand, and 10,000 itself. Encourage your child to name the place first, then name the value, because that habit prevents most errors.

What your child will learn

• Read numbers through the ten-thousands range
• Identify values of digits by place
• Match word form and expanded form
• Compare numbers using place value

Common Core standard: 3.NBT.A.1, 4.NBT.A.2