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Converting Four Digit Place Value Worksheet

This converting four digit place value worksheet gives 3rd graders eight number cards plus three applied problems on digit value and expanded form. Answer key included, so practice to the thousands takes no prep.

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Place value is the idea that a digit’s worth depends on where it sits inside a number, and this converting four digit place value worksheet gives third graders steady practice with numbers all the way to the thousands. Once students can look at 3,748 and say that the 7 stands for 700, they are ready to round, compare, add, and subtract larger numbers with confidence. Naming the ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands places is the quiet skill underneath almost every multi-digit operation they meet this year.

This 3rd grade place value worksheet opens with eight number cards. Each card shows a four-digit number with one digit underlined, and students write the place that digit sits in. The second half moves from naming to applying: a library word problem asks for the value of a digit, an expanded form item asks students to break a number apart, and a written response item asks them to explain their thinking. Use it as morning work, as a quick check after a place value mini-lesson, as homework, or as a station in a math rotation. The answer key on the final page makes it easy to grade or to let students check their own work.

What’s Included

  • 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
  • Answer key
  • 8 place-naming number cards plus 3 applied problems covering the value of a digit, expanded form, and a written explanation

There are three reasons this converting four digit place value worksheet helps students learn. First, the underlined digit changes position from card to card, so students cannot fall into a pattern and have to read each number carefully. Second, the sheet moves from naming a place, to stating a value, to writing a number in expanded form, which builds understanding in small connected steps. Third, the final item asks students to explain how they know, and putting reasoning into words is what turns a memorized rule into understanding a teacher can actually see.

Away from the page, try a few quick games. Roll four number cubes, line the digits up to make a number, and take turns naming the value of a chosen digit. Write a large number on a sticky note, cover one digit, and ask what is hiding. Build numbers with base ten blocks and trade ten of one place for one of the next. Read big numbers off cereal boxes, sports scores, and library shelf labels so students see that place value lives outside the math block too.

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