Overview of base ten blocks and place value lesson using SMART Board technology and physical manipulatives.

1. Base Ten Blocks
Lexi Sabo

2. Target Learners
 Grade: 1st to 2nd
 Subject: Mathematics

3. SMART Exchange Link
The Lesson
 Access the original lesson here
Other Supplemental Resources
 Goalbook Toolkit – Base Ten Blocks
 Math Learning Center – Number Pieces

4. Overview
 Topic: Place Value, supplemental
 Review place value with video
 Introduce key vocabulary: Standard Form, Expanded Notation, Word Form, Ones, Tens, Hundreds
 Introduce base ten blocks
 Show base ten blocks video
 Also, provide physical base ten blocks for the class
 Give opportunities for students to come up and answer the questions on the SMART Board
 While one student is manipulating the blocks on the board, have students at their seats
manipulate the physical blocks

5. Base Ten Blocks
Image via Ms. Duprat’s Classroom Blog

6. Evidence of Supporting UDL
 Support UDL guidelines:
 2.5: Illustrate through multiple media – Physical manipulatives and digital manipulatives
 5.2: Use multiple tools for construction and composition – Use of Base Ten Blocks
 Base Ten blocks are a great way of scaffolding
 Base Ten blocks can be used in later academic years for representing other operations
 Supports the CRA (Concrete-Representational-Abstract) Teaching Sequence
 Base Ten Blocks actively engage students
 The use of a SMART Board also actively engages students through tactile learning