edxeducation Four Colour Plastic Base Ten Set | 121 Pieces | Hands-on Maths Manipulative for Kids | Teach Number Concepts, Place Value and Measurement

Excellent quality item - our young child loves it!

This is a simple product but it works well. You get lots of each type of number - units, tens, hundreds and 1 thousand block. It's a great way of teaching the link between numbers on the page with real life units and tens. Everything is made out of colourful plastic making it easy to see what is what. The plastic is hard and durable - it will put up with drops and being really used.

Good quality, but it's a pity there are only 10 tens in the set.

Base 10 is brilliant for teaching place value, however in this set you only have ten 10 rods. As a tutor and primary teacher, this makes it extremely difficult to explain the concept of regrouping or exchanging, for example, when adding two 2-digit numbers across the 100s boundary in year 3. For example, if I wanted to teach how to add 63 + 75, I wouldn't have enough 10 rods to model counting 13 tens altogether and exchanging 10 of them for a 100 plate, leaving 3 behind. This is key to teaching place value to young children and I feel this concept has been completely missed by the manufacturers. Why not provide twenty 10s instead, this would solve the problem. Now I have to try and order them.

Brilliant quality BUT huge fundamental floor is that there is one ten tens …. So when using as partitioning / showing moments can’t show over 100 separately before “equal” answer For example can’t do 72+41 as that requires 11 tens to be able to show both numbers before adding them together. Such a shame of such an oversight