This Printable Base 10 Blocks worksheet gives 2nd graders cut-out hundreds, tens, and ones blocks to build numbers by hand — a no-prep, hands-on way to make place value, counting, and addition click.
This finding 10 more 10 less activity helps 1st and 2nd grade children use a hundred chart to find 10 more and 10 less. Practice page and answer key included.
This rainbow place value activity has children match pots of gold to tens and ones cards. Made for Kindergarten to 2nd Grade, with a practice page and answer key included.
The Place Value Party Place Value Activity lets 1st to 3rd Grade students spin numbers, build them with base-ten cards and write expanded form. Answer key included.
Match standard, word and expanded form with this PBJ place value activity for 4th grade: 30 sandwich, peanut butter and jelly cards, a recording sheet and practice, answer key included.
This 3.NBT.1 Common Core Activity lets 3rd Grade students round numbers to the nearest 10 or 100 by sorting 24 cards into Round Up and Round Down, with an answer key included.
In this Blast Off With Numbers Base Ten Words Expanded Form Activity, students will read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.
In this 2.NBT.3 Common Core Activity, students will read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.
The Let's Make a Number Hundreds Tens One Activity has 1st to 3rd grade students build and compare three-digit numbers with cards and a place value mat. Answer key included for quick checking.
This round it up or down ice cream activity has 3rd and 4th grade students match number scoops to cones by rounding to the nearest ten and hundred. Answer key included for quick checking.
In this Scooping Up Hundreds Rounding Activity, students use place value understanding to round whole numbers to the nearest 100.
Cubes, rods and flats, oh my!
Our number system is built on groups of ten, and base 10 is how kids learn that. They see that ten ones make a ten (a rod) and ten tens make a hundred (a flat). First graders work with tens and ones, second graders add hundreds, and older students stretch to thousands: 2,345 = 2 thousands + 3 hundreds + 4 tens + 5 ones. Base 10 blocks make the idea something kids can hold. The click moment is when a child trades ten little cubes for one rod and says "It's the same amount!"
Base 10 makes sense when kids touch it, draw it and then use it.
Give each pair a pile of cubes and a die. They roll, take that many cubes, and trade ten cubes for a rod whenever they can. First to make a flat wins. Trading over and over shows them exactly how our number system groups.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withPrintable Base 10 BlocksActivitiesOpen it →Play a short place value game at the start of math: "What is the 6 worth in 462?" Quick retrieval keeps the idea fresh, and kids love beating their own score.
Why it works: a big review of study methods ranked quick self-quizzing among the most powerful ways to remember (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withDetermining Place Value GameGamesOpen it →Once kids know the blocks, have them draw a line for each ten and a dot for each one. It's fast, works anywhere and moves them from objects to symbols.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withDrawing Tens and Ones WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Turn tens and ones into games kids want to play again.
ActivitiesKids hop up or down a hundreds chart by tens and say the new number.
Open Finding 10 More 10 Less Activity →
WorksheetsKids take a big number and break it into thousands, hundreds, tens and ones like a puzzle.
Open Breaking Apart Thousands Hundreds Tens Ones Worksheet →
Micro LessonsA quick lesson with read-aloud and instant feedback on place value. Great for centers.
Open Determining Place Value Micro Lesson →Teacher favorites right now: Printable Base 10 Blocks, Finding 10 More 10 Less Activity and Rainbow Place Value Activity.
It means our number system is built on groups of ten. Each place is worth ten times the place to its right: ones, tens, hundreds, thousands.
They're math blocks that show place value: small cubes are ones, rods are tens and flats are hundreds. Big cubes show thousands.
Kids start in kindergarten with teen numbers as ten and some more. First grade covers tens and ones, second grade adds hundreds, and fourth grade extends to larger numbers.
Yes. Use printable blocks, straws bundled into tens or even pennies and dimes.
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