KP® Ten-Frame Tiles

Description

Components

KP Ten-Frame Tiles consist of five components:

• Small ten-frames
• Large ten-frames
• Orange tiles
• Yellow grouping tiles
• Blue grouping tiles

Benefits

• Because the pieces are “groupable” and build tens of tens of tens, no trading, as with base-ten blocks, is necessary.
• Students put components together and take them apart in groups of 10 at different magnitudes.
• Students use five and ten as benchmarks for gauging quantity.
• Every quantity 0-10 has a unique look on the ten-frame (0-10 ones, 0-10 tens, 0-10 hundreds, 0-10 tenths, 0-10 hundredths, etc.)
• Formations on the ten-frame become visual memories associated with number name and numeral.
• Students develop a sense of “ten-ness,” an awareness that builds mental-math and estimation skills.
• As students build tiles-of-10 with orange tiles and tiles-of-100 with tiles-of-10, they discover how the base-ten system works.
• The tile-of-10 has two identities: it can be simultaneously viewed as 1 ten and 10 ones.
• The tile-of-100 has three identities: it can be simultaneously viewed as 1 hundred, 10 tens, and 100 ones.
• Since each tile contains its grouping-by-10s history, students begin counting with a single orange tile and still have that original orange tile in their tile-of-1000.
• Students build computational fluency through direct connections between their number work with tiles and written methods.
• Students connect number and operation concepts to each other, developing reasoning skills.
• Students connect number and operation concepts to problem solving situations