Place Value Composition

Free interactive math game: Place Value Composition — 3000 + 400 + 20 + 5 = ?. Part of the Addition & Subtraction category on MathKite.

Example problems

Taken from the generator that powers this exercise. A fresh set appears every time the page is opened, and the printable worksheet holds ten of them.

  1. 600 + 30 + 6
  2. 5000 + 600 + 10 + 1
  3. 500 + 40 + 7
  4. 600 + 70 + 8

About this exercise

Building a number from its parts, which is what our whole number system rests on.

How to solve it

Add the pieces together, keeping each one in its own column: hundreds with hundreds, tens with tens, ones with ones.

Worked example

900 + 80 + 4 gives 984.

Common mistake

Writing the parts side by side. 900 + 80 + 4 is 984, not 900804.