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Hundreds, tens and ones (blocks)

Base-ten blocks show numbers: a flat is 100, a rod is 10, a little cube is 1.

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How to do it

  1. Count the flats: that many hundreds.
  2. Count the rods: that many tens.
  3. Count the cubes: that many ones. Write the digits in order.

Worked example

2 hundreds, 5 tens and 3 ones
200 + 50 + 3
253

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No rods means a 0 in the tens place.

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