Hello, friends! Today, we’re going to have fun with base 10 blocks. These blocks help us understand numbers better. Let’s get started!
First, let’s talk about the different blocks we have. We have small cubes and longer blocks called “longs.”
A cube is a small block that represents the number one. So, if you have one cube, you have the number one!
A long is a bigger block made up of 10 small cubes. This means one long equals the number 10 because it has 10 cubes inside it.
Now, let’s learn how to trade cubes for longs. This is like swapping 10 small cubes for one big long. Let’s see how it works!
Let’s count some orange cubes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. When we put these 10 cubes together, we get one long. So, 10 cubes are the same as one long!
Now, let’s count yellow cubes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. Again, these 10 cubes make one long. If we have another row of 10 cubes, we get another long. So, two rows of 10 cubes make two longs, which is 20 cubes in total!
Let’s count cubes in rows: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 in each row. If we have four rows, we get four longs. Counting by tens, we have 10, 20, 30, and 40 cubes, which means four longs!
Now, let’s count a lot of cubes! Each row has 10 cubes. If we have seven rows, we get seven longs. Counting by tens, we have 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70 cubes. So, seven longs equal 70 cubes!
Always remember, you can trade 10 cubes for one long. It’s like putting 10 small blocks together to make one big block!
Thanks for learning with us today! Keep practicing, and you’ll become a base 10 blocks expert. See you next time!
Build Your Own Numbers: Use small objects like buttons, coins, or pieces of pasta to represent cubes. Gather 10 of these objects to make a “long.” Try creating different numbers by combining cubes and longs. For example, to make the number 23, use 2 longs and 3 cubes. Can you make the number 45? How about 67?
Base 10 Block Hunt: Go on a scavenger hunt around your home or classroom to find items that can represent cubes and longs. For example, a pencil could be a long, and an eraser could be a cube. Once you’ve found your items, practice trading 10 cubes for a long. How many longs can you make with the items you found?
Counting in Tens: Practice counting by tens using your base 10 blocks or the objects you found. Start with one long and count 10, then add another long and count 20, and so on. How high can you count by tens? Try counting up to 100 and see how many longs you need!
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Welcome to Kids Academy! Hello everyone! Let’s open the worksheet. Don’t forget to like this video and subscribe to our channel. You can find the link to this app in the comments below.
Today, we’re going to be looking at a worksheet that asks us to trade base 10 blocks. Before we get started, let’s review some important information to help us complete this worksheet.
First, do you remember how much one cube is worth? Well, one cube is worth one and represents the number one. The next base ten block I’d like to review is the long. If you look closely at the long, you’ll see that there are 10 small cubes inside of it. So, do you know how much this long represents? It represents 10 because there are 10 small cubes inside of this long.
Today, this worksheet is going to ask us to trade cubes for longs. Let’s read the directions and get started right away.
The first task is to trade tens for ones. How many longs can be traded for the cubes? Let’s count the cubes in the first example. I see orange cubes. Let’s count them now: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 cubes.
If we put those 10 cubes together, we would get one long because inside one long, there are ten cubes. So, whether you have ten individual cubes or one long, they both represent the number ten. I see that our first answer choice shows one long.
Now, let’s look at the second problem. Let’s start by counting the yellow cubes. I see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. If I put these cubes together, I would get one long, which is 10 cubes.
Now, let’s count the bottom row. There are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. If I drew out another 10 cubes, I would see that again if I put them together, it equals one long, which is also equal to 10.
So, how many longs can I trade all of these cubes for? If I traded these cubes for longs, I would see that I had two longs. If I counted by 10, 10, 20, I would know that there are 20 cubes in total, or two longs. That’s our first answer choice.
Let’s take a look at the third example. For our third example, we can count the number of rows, but just to be sure, we want to make sure there’s 10 cubes in the first row. Let’s count that first row: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 cubes.
So, in each row, there are ten cubes. If I traded each row of cubes for a long, I would get one long, two longs, three longs, and four longs. Now I know I can count by ten: 10, 20, 30, and 40 cubes in total. I know these 40 cubes are equal to four longs, so we need to find the answer choice that shows four longs.
Let’s go ahead and check that. Our final question has a lot more cubes. We can count each one of these cubes or count the top row and then simply count the rows. Let’s count the cubes in the top row: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 cubes again.
If I traded this first row for one long, I can trade the second row of ten cubes for one long, the third row for one long, the fourth row for one long, the fifth row for one long, the sixth row for one long, and the seventh row for one long.
So, how many longs are there in total? Let’s count them: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. There are seven rows of longs. If we count by tens, there are seven longs, so let’s count: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70. That means there are 70 cubes in total.
Let’s find the correct answer choice that shows 70 cubes or, easily said, seven longs. The first answer choice shows five longs, which is not correct. Our second answer choice must be correct.
Let’s count just to make sure: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 rows of longs or 70 cubes in total. We can go ahead and check that as our correct answer choice.
Remember, you can always trade ten cubes for one long because one long really just represents ten cubes put together in a nice way.
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