Penguin's Block Builders – Place Value Worksheet (IB PYP Grade 1)

About This Worksheet

Build numbers with tens rods and ones cubes. This colourful, printable IB PYP Grade 1 Mathematics worksheet gives young learners focused practice with place value, with a friendly penguin to guide them. It has a name, class and date box for students, the mindtested.com header and footer, and a teacher answer key on page 2.

What Questions Are in This Worksheet?

There are 3 activities worth 11 marks in total:

• Activity A: Matching blocks to numbers.
• Activity B: Reading tens and ones from blocks.
• Activity C: Finding the value of a digit.

What Your Child Will Practise

• Writing numbers in expanded form
• Finding the value of each digit
• Counting tens rods and ones cubes
• Splitting numbers into tens and ones

How to Use This Worksheet

1. Print the PDF on A4 paper (colour is best, but black and white works too).
2. Read each instruction aloud together before your child starts.
3. Let your child try every activity independently first.
4. Mark with the answer key on page 2 and talk through any mistakes.

Tip: five to ten minutes of regular practice works better for Grade 1 learners than one long session. Colour in the penguin when the worksheet is finished as a small reward.

Ideal for classroom use, homework, tutoring or home learning in the IB PYP Number strand, where learners understand that two-digit numbers are made of tens and ones. Answer key included.