Place Value
6 min · Age 7-8

Hundreds

Ten tens make a hundred.

Three-digit place value extends the same bundling logic: ten tens make a hundred. Children need to read and write numbers to 1000 in numerals and in words, and to handle zeros as placeholders. Usually ages six to eight.

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concrete

10 tens bundle into 100

H
100
T
O
100

When we collect ten ten-sticks, they snap into a hundred-square.

pictorial

234 = 2 hundreds + 3 tens + 4 ones

H
100
100
T
10
10
10
O
1
1
1
1
200 + 30 + 4

Two hundred thirty-four. Two hundreds, three tens, four ones. Read left to right; each column is ten times the one to its right.

What parents should watch for

  • Writing three hundred and five as 3005.
  • Ignoring a zero in the tens column when reading aloud.
  • Thinking a longer number is always larger without checking place value.
  • Adding a hundred by changing the wrong digit.
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Land 37 · Hundred Heights10 levels for ages 6–8 in the place value strand.

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