Materials List
Base Ten Blocks - This is a set with unit cubes, rods (10 units), flats (10 rods), and a cube (10 flats). It is helpful to use ones that can be displayed from the front of the class, either from an overhead projector or ones that can be stuck onto the board. Also you can draw them, but the students should be familiar with the concrete objects.
Countable items such as counter, buttons, cubes, pencils
Straws or craft sticks that can be bundled into tens with tape or rubber bands
Picture cards and picture cutouts - This unit uses colorful identical picture cutouts to demonstrate groups of ten. Suggestions are be construction paper cutouts of objects (fruits, shapes) or pictures from magazines or newspapers.
Number cards - Large cards to display on the board in the numbers 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and 1 through 9. The ones digit cards should fit over the 0 digit on the tens cards.
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