Base Ten: For Numbers Greater Than 1,000

Here’s a twist on BASE TEN Clip Art that can help your students better understand the relationships between numbers. Sometimes teaching place value in greater numbers can be difficult because there is no way to model those larger numbers. Some kids really need to see that modeling but all kids can benefit from it. I decided to create clip art that could be used to model numbers over one thousand.

Traditional Blocks

Traditional Base Ten Blocks only come in one solid color. I created this set in two different colors making it easy for your students to count by ones or tens to see the total for each denomination. For example, your students can easily count by 1 to see the 10. They can also easily count by 10 to see the 100.

Modeling Greater Numbers

When modeling numbers greater than one thousand, having two colors can really simplify this difficult skill. Using the same idea from above, your students can count by 100 to see the 1,000, and, they can count by 1,000 to see the 10,000. Finally, your students can count by 10,000 to see the 100,000.

This completely explains how BASE TEN Works!

Discuss Base Ten

As your students get into greater numbers, you can discuss how these numbers are created and your students can see the patterns in Base Ten. You can see how adding a ZERO creates the next denomination in Base Ten. See Examples Below.

Get Creative

This clip art collection has so many uses! You could create a presentation and count each denomination with your students as a whole group. Or you could also make task cards and worksheets for continued practice. Another fun activity is to print base ten blocks on card stock and laminate them so your students can practice creating numbers. You could also create a set of numbers for them to create.

What’s included in the set:

In this set of Base Ten clip art, you get 5 different colors: Blue, Green, Pink, Orange and Yellow. You also get black lines for creating worksheets / no prep / no colored ink resources. You can purchase this clip art, by clicking the link below.

Base Ten to 100,000