This manipulative provides opportunities to:
Explore place values using paper style pieces
Break larger place value pieces into smaller values or join smaller place value pieces to create larger ones
Easily stack pieces representing different place values
Model addition by using place value pieces
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Simulation by PhET Interactive Simulations, University of Colorado Boulder, licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (https://phet.colorado.edu)
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