Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Explaining the Base 10 System: One Hundred Thousand Squares Later!

Since school has started, our class has been working with the base 10 system.  Trying to understand the base 10 system can be hard to conceptualize, so the class has worked at creating more concrete examples.  In the video below, our class has  shown the relationship between 1s, 10s, 100s, 1 000s, 10 000s, and 100 000s using small squares.  Students quickly realize that when number increase in size, 10 times the size can be quite dramatic!  In end, it is hoped that students will get a better appreciation for the size of 1 million!

                                         Thanks to Logan for the video!




                                         In the end, students realized that if they wanted to show
                                         1 million squares, they would have to make this long line
                                         ten times as big!  (Approximately 11 hallways long!)

                                         Thanks to James for taking the pictures!







                                         Mrs. Takeda stopped by our class to say hello!







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