Welcome to our Place Value Riddles page.
Here you will find our range of riddles with place value clues for elementary kids.
These fun riddles will help your child to develop their place value and number skills, whilst developing their problem solving and reasoning skills at the same time.
Using riddles is a great way to learn Math facts and develop
place value and thinking skills in a fun and interesting way.
Most children are much more engaged and motivated solving riddles
than working out pages of traditional math facts.
Using these math riddles below will help your child to develop their understanding of place value
as well as their problem solving and reasoning skills.
There are different versions of each riddle from 1st to 5th grade,
so it is easy to find an easier or harder version of the same riddle.
Each riddle comes complete with answers.
We hope you enjoy our free printable riddles.
Here you will find a range of math riddles to develop your child's place value skills and number facts in a fun way.
Each riddle involves reading the clues and eliminating the incorrect answers, leaving just one answer left which satisfies all the clues.
Each riddle sheet comes complete with an answer sheet.
Using these sheets will help your child to:
As well as having place value riddles for whole numbers, we also have some riddles for decimals.
These riddles are suitable for 4th and 5th grade and are a great way to practice using and applying knowledge of place value with decimals.
You can also use the riddle pages as part of a game where you choose one of the 6 or 8 possibilities, and your partner asks you place value questions to see if they can guess the one that you have chosen.
The person who answers their opponent's riddle in the fewest questions is the winner.
Take a look at some more of our worksheets similar to these.
Here you will find our free printable geometry riddles from 1st to 5th grade.
These riddles are similar to the math riddles on this page, but are all about 2d shapes instead of numbers.
Using these riddles will help your child to:
Here you will find a range of free printable math puzzles. Puzzles are a great way to have some fun with math whilst learning and developing skills at the same time.
The following puzzles involve using and applying a range of different math skills, particularly addition and subtraction, but also multiplication and division for grades 3 and up.
We have a range of magic square puzzles for kids to solve, suitable from 1st grade and upwards.
Most of the sheets involve finding the missing numbers to create a magic square.
Our magic square sheets include:
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The Math Salamanders hope you enjoy using these free printable Math worksheets and all our other Math games and resources.
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