Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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At the elementary school age, numbers are abstract and hard for kids to conceptualize. Once students move past digits in the hundreds place, the number just becomes a procedure and number values are increasingly difficult for students to visualize. With interlocking base 10 blocks, students will have a physical and visual impression of what comes after a hundred, thousand, ten thousand, and hundred thousand.
Being able to represent large numbers with models will allow the students to have an understanding of how large numbers can be with emphasis on the base 10. Seeing a physical representation of a hundred thousand will build confidence in students to want to dig deeper into mathematics and become more confident in math!
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At the elementary school age, numbers are abstract and hard for kids to conceptualize. Once students move past digits in the hundreds place, the number just becomes a procedure and number values are increasingly difficult for students to visualize. With interlocking base 10 blocks, students will have a physical and visual impression of what comes after a hundred, thousand, ten thousand, and hundred thousand.
Being able to represent large numbers with models will allow the students to have an understanding of how large numbers can be with emphasis on the base 10. Seeing a physical representation of a hundred thousand will build confidence in students to want to dig deeper into mathematics and become more confident in math!