Printable hundreds chart
A hundreds chart, also called a 100 chart or a number chart 1 to 100, shows 1 to 100 in ten rows of ten. Each row adds ten and each column keeps the same ones digit, so it is where children first see place value.
Free printable PDF, Kindergarten to 2nd grade.
One page, black and white, prints the same every time.
What is on the sheet
The table below is the sheet as it prints with these options: 1 to 100, None.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 |
| 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 |
| 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 |
| 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 |
| 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 |
| 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 |
| 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 |
What the chart teaches
Every column on a hundreds chart ends in the same digit, and every row starts a new ten. Moving right adds one, moving down adds ten. A child who can find 47 on the chart and then point to 57 without counting has understood tens and ones, which is the heart of the kindergarten and 1st grade number work.
The chart is also the fastest way to make skip counting visible. Print it with the evens shaded and the twos pattern is two stripes down the page; with the fives shaded, two columns; with the tens, the last column. Children who have coloured those patterns themselves tend to keep them.
Which version to print
Kindergarten works to 100. First grade standards go to 120, which is why the chart offers a 1 to 120 size with two extra rows: the extra twenty is where children first meet three-digit numbers that look like the ones they know. Second grade uses the chart for adding and subtracting tens and for the beginnings of mental math.
For a classroom set, the four-per-page version prints four small charts on one sheet to cut apart. For practice rather than reference, the blank chart and the missing-numbers chart are worksheets with the answer key on page 2.
Games that use it
Cover a number with a counter and ask what is hidden. Say a number and have the child cover it, then cover the number ten more. Roll two dice, move that many, and say the number you land on. Race to 100 from 1 by tens and ones. None of these need anything but the chart, a counter and a die, and all of them practise the two moves the chart is built on.
Common questions
- What is the difference between a hundreds chart and a 100 chart?
- Nothing. Both names mean the 1 to 100 grid in rows of ten. Some teachers say hundred chart or hundred board; the chart is the same.
- Should the chart start at 0 or 1?
- This one starts at 1 and ends each row on a multiple of ten, the layout used in most US classrooms. A 0 to 99 chart puts the tens digit constant across each row instead; either works once a child is used to it, but mixing them mid-year is confusing.
- Is there a poster size?
- The PDF is vector, so it prints clean at any enlargement. Print the 1 to 100 chart with "Fit to page" on tabloid paper or scale it up in your print dialog for the wall.