Zero holds the tens place: 2nd grade math lesson

What this lesson shows

Fixes a mistake

Seven hundred nine is 709, not 79. It has 0 tens.

The worked example

The lesson works this one step by step: 709. Then your kid tries one like it on paper.

The steps

Three blanks
Fill the places you hear
A 0 holds the empty place
Check

Helping at home

Draw three blanks, hundreds, tens, ones. Put each digit you hear in its place. Write a 0 in any place nobody says.

If your kid gets stuck

Three places: hundreds, tens, ones.

Watch it with Lux

With Lux, this lesson is a narrated video and a printed page your kid works on. Then Lux helps with the same math on their own worksheet, one question at a time.

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Standards

Common Core 2.NBT.A.3
Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.

Matches standards in 49 statesSee each state's code

Alabama MA19.2.8
Alaska 2.NBT.3
Arizona 2.NBT.A.3
Arkansas 2.NPV.3
California 2.NBT.A.3
Colorado 2.NBT.A.3
Connecticut 2.NBT.A.3
Delaware 2.NBT.A.3
District of Columbia 2.NBT.A.3
Florida MA.2.NSO.1.1
Hawaii 2.NBT.A.3
Idaho 2.NBT.A.3
Illinois 2.NBT.A.3
Indiana 2.NS.2
Iowa 2.NBT.A.3
Kansas 2.NBT.3
Kentucky KY.2.NBT.3
Louisiana 2.NBT.A.3
Maine 2.NBT.A.3
Maryland 2.NOS.A.3
Massachusetts 2.NBT.A.3
Michigan 2.NBT.A.3
Minnesota 2.1.1.1
Mississippi 2.NBT.3
Missouri 2.NBT.A.4
Montana MT.2.NBT.3
Nebraska 2.N.3.a
Nevada 2.NBT.A.3
New Hampshire 2.NBT.A.3
New Jersey 2.NBT.A.3
New Mexico 2.NBT.A.3
New York NY-2.NBT.3
North Carolina NC.2.NBT.3
North Dakota 2.NO.CC.3
Ohio 2.NBT.3
Oklahoma 2.N.1.1, 2.N.1.3
Oregon 2.NBT.A.3
Pennsylvania CC.2.1.2.B.2
Rhode Island 2.NBT.A.3
South Carolina 2.NR.1.1
South Dakota 2.NBT.A.3
Tennessee 2.NBT.A.3
Texas 111.4.b.2.B
Utah 2.NBT.3
Vermont 2.NBT.A.3
Virginia 2.NS.2b
Washington 2.NBT.A.3
West Virginia M.2.8
Wisconsin M.2.NBT.A.3

Zero holds the tens place