Place value printable pack: kindergarten to Year 4
Print this page and cut the cards apart, or open any number in the Number Blocks Tool to generate a fresh card. The questions always cover tens, expanded form, odd or even, prime or composite, factor pairs, and ±10.
Bands are rough guides. Start where the learner is accurate, not where their age suggests.
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Band A — Kindergarten / Year 1 (tens and ones)
Numbers under 40. Focus on tens and ones and saying the number two ways.
Teen number with a clear ten — number 14
Practice card for 14
Six questions with answers for 14: place value, expanded form, odd or even, prime or composite, factor pairs, and ±10. Print it, or pick any other number in the Number Blocks Tool.
- How many tens are in 14? ____
- Write 14 in expanded form. ____________
- Is 14 odd or even? How do you know? ____________
- Is 14 prime or composite? ____________
- Write two factor pairs of 14. ____________
- What is 14 + 10? ____ What is 14 - 10? ____
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- 1 ten (and 4 ones).
- 10 + 4
- Even: it ends in 4, so it splits into two equal groups of 7.
- Composite: 14 has 4 factors.
- Any two of 1 × 14, 2 × 7.
- 24 and 4.
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Two tens and three ones — number 23
Practice card for 23
Six questions with answers for 23: place value, expanded form, odd or even, prime or composite, factor pairs, and ±10. Print it, or pick any other number in the Number Blocks Tool.
- How many tens are in 23? ____
- Write 23 in expanded form. ____________
- Is 23 odd or even? How do you know? ____________
- Is 23 prime or composite? ____________
- Write one factor pair of 23. ____________
- What is 23 + 10? ____ What is 23 - 10? ____
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- 2 tens (and 3 ones).
- 20 + 3
- Odd: it ends in 3, so one is left over when you make pairs.
- Prime: only 1 and itself.
- 1 × 23.
- 33 and 13.
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Exact tens — number 30
Practice card for 30
Six questions with answers for 30: place value, expanded form, odd or even, prime or composite, factor pairs, and ±10. Print it, or pick any other number in the Number Blocks Tool.
- How many tens are in 30? ____
- Write 30 in expanded form. ____________
- Is 30 odd or even? How do you know? ____________
- Is 30 prime or composite? ____________
- Write two factor pairs of 30. ____________
- What is 30 + 10? ____ What is 30 - 10? ____
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- 3 tens.
- 30
- Even: it ends in 0, so it splits into two equal groups of 15.
- Composite: 30 has 8 factors.
- Any two of 1 × 30, 2 × 15, 3 × 10, 5 × 6.
- 40 and 20.
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Classic practice card from the homepage — number 36
Practice card for 36
Six questions with answers for 36: place value, expanded form, odd or even, prime or composite, factor pairs, and ±10. Print it, or pick any other number in the Number Blocks Tool.
- How many tens are in 36? ____
- Write 36 in expanded form. ____________
- Is 36 odd or even? How do you know? ____________
- Is 36 prime or composite? ____________
- Write two factor pairs of 36. ____________
- What is 36 + 10? ____ What is 36 - 10? ____
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- 3 tens (and 6 ones).
- 30 + 6
- Even: it ends in 6, so it splits into two equal groups of 18.
- Composite: 36 has 9 factors.
- Any two of 1 × 36, 2 × 18, 3 × 12, 4 × 9, 6 × 6.
- 46 and 26.
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Band B — Year 2 (to 100 and bonds)
Two-digit numbers that cross decades and support bonds to 100.
Factor-rich even number — number 48
Practice card for 48
Six questions with answers for 48: place value, expanded form, odd or even, prime or composite, factor pairs, and ±10. Print it, or pick any other number in the Number Blocks Tool.
- How many tens are in 48? ____
- Write 48 in expanded form. ____________
- Is 48 odd or even? How do you know? ____________
- Is 48 prime or composite? ____________
- Write two factor pairs of 48. ____________
- What is 48 + 10? ____ What is 48 - 10? ____
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- 4 tens (and 8 ones).
- 40 + 8
- Even: it ends in 8, so it splits into two equal groups of 24.
- Composite: 48 has 10 factors.
- Any two of 1 × 48, 2 × 24, 3 × 16, 4 × 12, 6 × 8.
- 58 and 38.
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Powers of two hiding inside — number 64
Practice card for 64
Six questions with answers for 64: place value, expanded form, odd or even, prime or composite, factor pairs, and ±10. Print it, or pick any other number in the Number Blocks Tool.
- How many tens are in 64? ____
- Write 64 in expanded form. ____________
- Is 64 odd or even? How do you know? ____________
- Is 64 prime or composite? ____________
- Write two factor pairs of 64. ____________
- What is 64 + 10? ____ What is 64 - 10? ____
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- 6 tens (and 4 ones).
- 60 + 4
- Even: it ends in 4, so it splits into two equal groups of 32.
- Composite: 64 has 7 factors.
- Any two of 1 × 64, 2 × 32, 4 × 16, 8 × 8.
- 74 and 54.
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Ends in 5 — odd composite — number 75
Practice card for 75
Six questions with answers for 75: place value, expanded form, odd or even, prime or composite, factor pairs, and ±10. Print it, or pick any other number in the Number Blocks Tool.
- How many tens are in 75? ____
- Write 75 in expanded form. ____________
- Is 75 odd or even? How do you know? ____________
- Is 75 prime or composite? ____________
- Write two factor pairs of 75. ____________
- What is 75 + 10? ____ What is 75 - 10? ____
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- 7 tens (and 5 ones).
- 70 + 5
- Odd: it ends in 5, so one is left over when you make pairs.
- Composite: 75 has 6 factors.
- Any two of 1 × 75, 3 × 25, 5 × 15.
- 85 and 65.
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Just before three digits — number 99
Practice card for 99
Six questions with answers for 99: place value, expanded form, odd or even, prime or composite, factor pairs, and ±10. Print it, or pick any other number in the Number Blocks Tool.
- How many tens are in 99? ____
- Write 99 in expanded form. ____________
- Is 99 odd or even? How do you know? ____________
- Is 99 prime or composite? ____________
- Write two factor pairs of 99. ____________
- What is 99 + 10? ____ What is 99 - 10? ____
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- 9 tens (and 9 ones).
- 90 + 9
- Odd: it ends in 9, so one is left over when you make pairs.
- Composite: 99 has 6 factors.
- Any two of 1 × 99, 3 × 33, 9 × 11.
- 109 and 89.
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Band C — Year 3–4 (hundreds and beyond)
Three-digit and special numbers: zeros in the middle, squares, and rich factorizations.
One hundred exactly — number 100
Practice card for 100
Six questions with answers for 100: place value, expanded form, odd or even, prime or composite, factor pairs, and ±10. Print it, or pick any other number in the Number Blocks Tool.
- How many tens are in 100? ____
- Write 100 in expanded form. ____________
- Is 100 odd or even? How do you know? ____________
- Is 100 prime or composite? ____________
- Write two factor pairs of 100. ____________
- What is 100 + 10? ____ What is 100 - 10? ____
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- 10 tens.
- 100
- Even: it ends in 0, so it splits into two equal groups of 50.
- Composite: 100 has 9 factors.
- Any two of 1 × 100, 2 × 50, 4 × 25, 5 × 20, 10 × 10.
- 110 and 90.
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Dozen squared — many rectangles — number 144
Practice card for 144
Six questions with answers for 144: place value, expanded form, odd or even, prime or composite, factor pairs, and ±10. Print it, or pick any other number in the Number Blocks Tool.
- How many tens are in 144? ____
- Write 144 in expanded form. ____________
- Is 144 odd or even? How do you know? ____________
- Is 144 prime or composite? ____________
- Write two factor pairs of 144. ____________
- What is 144 + 10? ____ What is 144 - 10? ____
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- 14 tens (and 4 ones).
- 100 + 40 + 4
- Even: it ends in 4, so it splits into two equal groups of 72.
- Composite: 144 has 15 factors.
- Any two of 1 × 144, 2 × 72, 3 × 48, 4 × 36, 6 × 24, 8 × 18, 9 × 16, 12 × 12.
- 154 and 134.
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Zero in the tens place — number 205
Practice card for 205
Six questions with answers for 205: place value, expanded form, odd or even, prime or composite, factor pairs, and ±10. Print it, or pick any other number in the Number Blocks Tool.
- How many tens are in 205? ____
- Write 205 in expanded form. ____________
- Is 205 odd or even? How do you know? ____________
- Is 205 prime or composite? ____________
- Write two factor pairs of 205. ____________
- What is 205 + 10? ____ What is 205 - 10? ____
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- 20 tens (and 5 ones).
- 200 + 5
- Odd: it ends in 5, so one is left over when you make pairs.
- Composite: 205 has 4 factors.
- Any two of 1 × 205, 5 × 41.
- 215 and 195.
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Highly composite, useful for angles talk later — number 360
Practice card for 360
Six questions with answers for 360: place value, expanded form, odd or even, prime or composite, factor pairs, and ±10. Print it, or pick any other number in the Number Blocks Tool.
- How many tens are in 360? ____
- Write 360 in expanded form. ____________
- Is 360 odd or even? How do you know? ____________
- Is 360 prime or composite? ____________
- Write two factor pairs of 360. ____________
- What is 360 + 10? ____ What is 360 - 10? ____
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- 36 tens.
- 300 + 60
- Even: it ends in 0, so it splits into two equal groups of 180.
- Composite: 360 has 24 factors.
- Any two of 1 × 360, 2 × 180, 3 × 120, 4 × 90, 5 × 72, 6 × 60, 8 × 45, 9 × 40, ….
- 370 and 350.
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Teaching tips
- Print answers facing away from the learner, or fold the answers under until checking time.
- Ask for a prediction before opening the tool: "Will 75 be prime?"
- Reuse the same card a week later with the number hidden and only the questions visible.