Place Value Practice Worksheet

Place value is the idea that a digit’s worth depends on where it sits inside a number, and by fifth grade students are expected to carry that idea past the millions and to the right of the decimal point. This place value practice worksheet asks students to read the position of a digit, name what it is worth, and then compare two identical digits sitting in two different places. Fifth graders who really understand place value can round, compare, add, and multiply large numbers with confidence, because they always know what each digit actually represents.

This 5th grade place value worksheet is a two-page printable with a full answer key. Part A gives six numbers with one digit underlined and asks students to write that digit’s value on the line below, mixing whole numbers up to the millions with decimals out to the thousandths. Part B is a four-row table built on the ten-times relationship: students look at the same digit in two different places and record how many times greater the first value is. Part C closes with two short constructed-response problems where students write out their reasoning. Print it as morning work, a homework page, an exit ticket, or a quick pre-assessment before a rounding or decimal unit.

What’s Included

• 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
• Answer key
• 6 value-of-the-underlined-digit problems
• A 4-row “how many times greater” comparison table
• 2 written-explanation word problems

There are three reasons this place value practice worksheet helps students learn. First, it separates the digit from its value, which is the misconception that causes the most trouble with decimals — a 4 in the tenths place is not four hundredths. Second, the comparison table makes the ten-times pattern visible instead of abstract, so students can see that moving one place to the left multiplies a digit’s value by ten. Third, the two explanation prompts push students past a one-word answer and ask them to defend their thinking, which is exactly what state assessments expect at this grade.

Teachers and parents can extend the skill without extra prep. Build numbers with base-ten blocks or index cards, then have your child rearrange the cards and say out loud how each digit’s value changed. Play a quick “biggest number wins” game by drawing digit cards and placing them one at a time. Read real numbers aloud from a sports page, a grocery receipt, or a chart of city populations and ask which digit is worth the most. Say decimals as fractions — 0.4 as four tenths — so the naming pattern stays tied to the place value chart.

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