This coloured base ten set includes the following pieces: 100 blue units, 10 red rods, 10 yellow hundred flats, 1 green thousand cube. The set is packed in a cardboard box and made of Eco-Plastic. A total of 121 pieces. The base ten set is supplied in the same colour scheme as our Teachables base ten and place value range.
 
When students initially undertake the learning of numbers, it’s generally done by some kind of continuum, where the numbers just go on and on and on. Rote learning of numbers does not necessarily introduce students to the important structure of our number system; groupings of tens, hundreds, thousands and so on. Base Ten (otherwise known as Multi- Base Arithmetic Blocks or MAB) sets are powerful visual tools to introduce and reinforce trading/exchanging of place value in numbers. Consisting of units representing 1’s), longs (representing 10’s), flats (representing 100’s) and cubes (representing 1000’s).
 
Our Eco-Plastic range uses 100% recyclable polystyrene from ‘Post Consumer Production’ post-industrial waste. This waste is recycled and returned into production. Because the Eco-Plastic material can be recycled over and over again, we are able to maintain this recycling loop steadily, effectively and responsibly. Eco-plastic is absolutely equivalent in quality, appearance and feel to the new plastic granulate. The use of Eco-Plastic is a sensible use of resources, ecological and CO2-neutral. The is realised environmental protection without the loss of quality!