Practise Depicting a Number in Base 10
Article
September 10, 2024
Many everyday elements are counted in base 10: money, temperature, length measurements, etc. Counting to 10 is easy—you can simply count on your fingers! But when the number is greater than 10, counting suddenly becomes a little trickier.
Here’s a simple game to help your child represent numbers as hundreds, tens, and units.
Grade
1-6
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Instructions
- Print 4 copies of the tool.
- Cut out the hundreds, tens, and units along the dotted lines.
- The first player chooses a number between 0 and 1,000 and says it out loud to the second player.
- Using the hundreds, tens, and units that have been cut out, the second player must correctly represent the number stated by the first player.
Another way to play is to have children guess the number by presenting a set of cut-out hundreds, tens, and units.
Examples of questions to ask:
- Can you represent the number 32 using tens and units?
- Now try to represent the number 232 using hundreds, tens, and units.
- Here I have a packet of 3 hundreds, 4 tens and 8 units. What number is this?
- And so on.
