Year 3 Worksheet
Number lines and place value worksheet
Ten questions on Year 3 number lines and place value, from warm-up to challenge, with the answers for grown-ups on a sheet of their own.
Number lines and place value
Which arrow points to 8?
What number is the arrow pointing to?
About what number is the arrow pointing to? Pick the closest.
Circle one.
- 100
- 0
- 50
- 25
What is the missing number?
350, ?, 250, 200, 150
What is 10 less than 201?
Year 3 number lines and place value · sheet Y3brightwren.co.uk/worksheets/year-3/number-lines/
What is the value of the 9 in 490?
Which number is "three hundred and forty-two"?
Circle one.
- 442
- 324
- 342
- 302
Which number is the same as 500 + 60 + 9?
Circle one.
- 509
- 20
- 569
- 500,609
The line goes up in equal steps. What number is the arrow pointing to?
How many tens are in 900?
Year 3 number lines and place value · sheet Y3brightwren.co.uk/worksheets/year-3/number-lines/
Answers: Number lines and place value
- B
- 5
- 100
- 300
- 191
- 90
- 342
- 569
- 200
- 90
How to work them out
The line goes from 0 to 10, with a number on every mark. Find the mark with 8 written under it. That arrow points to 8.
The arrow is sitting right on top of a number on the line. Read the number under the arrow: it is 5.
The marks on the line go up in 10s, with 50 in the middle and 100 at the end. The arrow is in the second half, past the middle. It sits closest to 100, so the best round guess is 100.
The numbers go down by 50 each time. The blank sits between 350 and 250, so it is 300.
There are not enough tens, so the hundreds change too. So 201 − 10 = 191.
Find which column the 9 sits in. The 9 is in the tens column, so it is worth 9 tens. Count up those tens: the 9 in 490 is worth 90.
Listen for the hundreds, tens and ones in the words, then write each digit. Putting those digits together gives three hundred and forty-two = 342.
Add the parts back together to make the whole number. 500 + 60 + 9 = 569.
The line goes from 0 to 1,000 in 5 equal jumps. Each jump is worth 1,000 shared into 5, which is 200. The arrow is 1 jump along, so count 1 lot of 200. That lands on 200.
Every 10 is one ten, so count how many tens fit inside the number. That makes 90 tens altogether.
Year 3 number lines and place value · sheet Y3brightwren.co.uk/worksheets/year-3/number-lines/
For grown-ups
How the worksheet works
Each sheet has ten questions. The first three are a warm-up, the middle four are the core of the topic and the last three are a stretch. There is room under each question to work it out, and a box for the answer. Where a question only works with its choices in front of you, the choices are printed and your child circles one.
The answers start on a new sheet, so you can keep them to one side. Each one comes with a way to work it out. The mark at the foot of the questions matches the mark on the answers.
Nothing is saved and nothing needs signing in to. Print as many as you like: New questions gives you a new sheet each time.
What the questions cover
- Reading and estimating numbers on a number line
- The value of each digit in a three-digit number
- Comparing and ordering numbers up to 1000
- Finding 10 or 100 more or less
- Writing and reading numbers in words
- Count from zero in steps of 50 and 100
Rather practise on screen? Year 3 number lines and place value practice marks every answer as it goes and gets harder as your child gets them right.