Year 2 Place Value Within 100 Baseline Assessment

Assess pupils’ understanding at the start of your place value unit using this Year 2 place value within 100 baseline assessment. This ready-to-use assessment helps you quickly identify gaps in counting, tens and ones, comparing and ordering numbers, so you can target support and plan next steps with confidence.

The assessment includes a range of question types, including counting objects shown as lolly sticks and base ten, completing missing numbers on number sequences and number squares, identifying numbers represented using tens and ones, and finding one more and one less. Pupils also partition a two-digit number into tens and ones, compare numbers using <, > and =, and order numbers within 100.

Skills covered

• Counting to 100 by making tens
• Using a 100 square and completing missing numbers
• Recognising tens and ones representations
• Finding one more and one less within 100
• Partitioning numbers into tens and ones
• Comparing numbers using <, > and =
• Ordering numbers within 100
• Counting forwards and backwards within 100

What’s included?

• Year 2 baseline assessment: Place value within 100
• Clear, age-appropriate questions with a simple layout
• Answers included for quick marking
• A question-by-question breakdown showing which skills each question assesses

This assessment is ideal if you are searching for a Year 2 place value within 100 baseline assessment, a Year 2 place value test, or a quick way to check understanding before teaching place value within 100. Use it as a starting point, a pre-unit assessment, or as an evidence check for intervention and progress tracking.

This assessment links closely to our Year 2 Place Value Within 100 unit. If you would like the full set of lessons, slides, activities and worksheets, you can browse the unit here: Year 2 Autumn Block 1: Place Value Within 100