Teachables Eco-Wood Base Ten Set - Wooden, 121 Pieces

The Teachables Eco-Wood Base Ten Set is a comprehensive 121-piece manipulative designed to support students in understanding the structure of our number system. The set includes 100 units (ones), 10 rods (tens), 10 hundred flats (hundreds), and 1 thousand cube (thousands). This visual and tactile resource is an excellent tool for introducing and reinforcing key mathematical concepts, such as place value and number operations, particularly the trading and exchanging of place values in multi-digit numbers. The Eco-Wood material provides a sustainable, environmentally friendly alternative to plastic, ensuring that students engage in learning with a resource that is both durable and eco-conscious. This set is ideal for early learners and offers teachers a powerful resource for building foundational number sense.

Educational Benefits:

• Supports the development of place value understanding by visualising numbers in groups of tens, hundreds, and thousands.
• Encourages hands-on learning, helping students grasp abstract mathematical concepts through concrete manipulation.
• Reinforces the idea of trading and exchanging in the base ten system, which is fundamental to arithmetic operations.
• Promotes environmental awareness by using Eco-Wood, a sustainable and eco-friendly material in the classroom.

Classroom Ideas:

• Use the set to demonstrate the process of adding or subtracting multi-digit numbers by exchanging units, rods, flats, and cubes.
• Incorporate the set into group activities where students work together to build large numbers or solve place value puzzles.
• Introduce the concept of larger numbers by building representations of thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones, helping students understand the relationship between place values.
• Use the set for exploring number patterns and relationships, such as rounding numbers to the nearest hundred or thousand.

Information:

• Ages: Suitable for Foundation to Year 6
• Set includes: 100 units, 10 rods, 10 hundred flats, 1 thousand cube
• Material: Eco-Wood (80% wood, 20% recycled plastic), sustainable and eco-friendly
• Packaging: Packed in a sturdy cardboard box for storage