Value of a Digit Worksheets for 1st Grade: Tens and Ones

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Grade 1MathPlace Value & RoundingCCSS 1.NBT.B.2

Skill: Telling whether a digit in a two-digit number stands for tens or ones

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Aimed at first graders who can count objects to 100 and know that ten ones make a ten. A frequent mix-up is answering with the digit's face value for the tens place, so ask how many tens and how much that is in all. Build the numbers with rods in Place Value: Tens and Ones, then write them as tens plus ones in Expanded Form With Tens and Ones.

10 versions, each with its own answer key

Same skill and layout, a fresh set of problems in every version, so children can keep practicing without repeating a page. Problems are not repeated between versions unless a skill has only a small number of possible problems (for example, the addition facts within 10).

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In the number 47, the 4 and the 7 do very different jobs. The 4 stands for four tens, or forty, and the 7 stands for seven ones. First graders are expected to understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones, and this first grade worksheet asks about one digit at a time so the idea stays clear.

The page has sixteen short questions arranged in two columns. Each question names a digit and a number, such as "The 6 in 63 stands for," and children write the answer as tens or ones, for example 6 tens or 3 ones. The two digits in every number are different and neither is zero, so there is never any doubt about which digit is meant. Some questions ask about the tens digit and some about the ones digit, in no fixed order. Each of the ten versions has new numbers and its own answer key.

How to use it: build a few of the numbers first with bundles of ten straws or linking cubes and some loose ones. Ask your child to point to the bundles when you say the tens digit and to the loose pieces when you say the ones digit. On the sheet, remind them that the digit on the left is always the tens.

The answer key shows every answer in tens or ones. For counting rods and cubes, try our Place Value: Tens and Ones worksheet. For writing numbers as tens plus ones, try our Expanded Form With Tens and Ones worksheet.