Place Value Riddles
1st Grade to 5th Grade

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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.

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Math Riddles

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.

Place Value 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:

learn and develop their place value skills;
develop their understanding of mathematical language;
develop problem solving skills and reasoning.

1st Grade Place Value Riddles

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2nd Grade Place Value Riddles

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3rd Grade Place Value Riddles

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4th Grade Place Value Riddles

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5th Grade Place Value Riddles

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Decimal Place Value Riddles

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.

4th Grade Decimal Place Value Riddles

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4th Grade Decimal Place Value Riddles

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Using the Riddle Sheets as a Game

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.

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Geometry Riddles

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:

develop their geometry skills;
develop their understanding of geometric language;
apply their geometric knowledge to solve problems.

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Geometry Worksheets (Riddles)

Printable Math Puzzles

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.