State the value of one digit in an integer or decimal.
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Practise it now
Build what each pot gets. Tap a digit for each column, starting with the biggest.
This exercise practises read place value alongside its own main skill, Dividing a decimal amount into equal groups.
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A worked example
One question of the kind this skill is tested with, worked all the way through: the reasoning, and what the wrong answers are there to catch.
What a digit is worth
Point B is marked on the number line. What is the value of the digit 8 in the value at B?
Each small step on this line is worth 1, and every labelled tick is ten steps on.
8
8000
80
800
Answer: 800
How you get there
B sits at 3829, and the digit 8 is standing in the hundreds column, so it is worth 800 rather than 8. A digit's value comes from its column, which is why the same digit is worth ten times as much one place to the left.
Why the other answers tempt
A digit is worth what its column says it is worth, not what the digit says on its own.
If they are stuck, say this
Read the value at B off the line, then name the column the digit 8 is standing in before you decide what it is worth.
Build what each pot gets. Tap a digit for each column, starting with the biggest.
This engine’s own main skill is Dividing a decimal amount into equal groups. It practises read place value alongside it.
8.60 litres shared between 4 is 2.15 litres, because . The point in the answer sits directly under the point in the amount, so the columns line up and no digit changes its value on the way down.
What to say if they get stuck
Start at the biggest column. How many whole ones can 4 groups take out of 8.60 litres?
Whatever is left over moves down a column and gets shared out again. That is what the next column is for.
Keep the point in your answer directly under the point in 8.60 litres, and the columns cannot slip.
Zoom into the line and pin the number 3.47 exactly.
This engine’s own main skill is Place Value & Decimals. It practises read place value alongside it.
Every zoom cuts one gap into ten equal pieces. Between 3 and 4 sit the tenths (3.4), and between 3.4 and 3.5 sit the hundredths (3.47). Decimals never run out - you can always zoom in and split again, which is exactly what each new place-value column means.
What to say if they get stuck
Drag the line left and right to travel. Use + to magnify.
3.47 lives between 3.4 and 3.5 - zoom until you can see the little hundredth ticks in that gap.
From 3.4, count 7 tiny ticks to the right. That is 3.47.
This is the wrong answer 11+ papers are built to offer, so it is worth watching for directly: a child who does this will look confident and still lose the mark. If it keeps happening on read place value, the fix is the misunderstanding rather than more questions.
Where read place value sits in the 11+
The 11+ does not test these skills in isolation, and practising one in the wrong order wastes the practice. These are the skills the curriculum map connects this one to.
Rounding depends on locating the rounding digit and adjacent place.
How read place value differs from the skills beside it
The same exercise practises several skills, and telling them apart is often the difficulty rather than the exercise itself. On this page the skill is: state the value of one digit in an integer or decimal, and it stops where one specified digit only.
Answered from what the skill map records about this skill, not from a template. Every answer here is on the page, and the same questions are the page's FAQ structured data.
State the value of one digit in an integer or decimal. It is one of 55 named maths skills in the 11+, in the number strand, and this page carries 2 interactive exercises that practise it.
There is a specific mistake recorded against this skill: reports the digit rather than its place value. 11+ papers are written to offer exactly that answer, so a child can be confident and still lose the mark. When it keeps happening, the fix is the misunderstanding rather than more questions.
Point at the next move rather than explaining the whole rule. Read the value at B off the line, then name the column the digit 8 is standing in before you decide what it is worth.
Once it is secure, the skill map opens round to a stated place. Rounding depends on locating the rounding digit and adjacent place.
The skill map draws the line here: One specified digit only. A question past that line is testing a different named maths skill, which is worth knowing before you spend a week practising the wrong one.
The number strand holds 13 skills that are tested together, and the pages next to read place value are round to a stated place, scale by a power of ten and solve a one-step number problem. Each has its own exercise and its own link, and none of them needs an account.
Use Decimal Divider and Number Line Zoomer, embedded on this page. They are the exercises the skill map attaches to read place value, they run in the browser with no account to make, nothing is scored, and nothing a child does here is recorded or sent anywhere. Each also has its own link, so you can send one to a child without sending them anywhere else first.
One wrong answer is a slip, the same wrong answer every time is a habit
A free diagnostic looks at which mistakes repeat across all four subjects, not just whether read place value was right on the day.
