Learning Resources Base Ten Blocks Smart Pack, Early Childhood Math Skills, Ages 5+, 6"W x 9"H

I knew these were gonna be smallish. Mathlink cubes underneath for size comparison. I feel like it was a good price for 1 flat, 20 rods, and 100units. I bought the base ten smart pack. My son is only in kindergarten so he is learning to count to 100 and do single digit addition. But these will be useful for the years ahead.

I would like to say how much this item has helped my son with only working with it a little. I had previously made a paper base ten set using small stickers but my son still didn't really get the place value concept using those. This set is something that he is excited to use because he wants to build towers and patterns with the pieces so today we used this set combined with a few other things for a lesson that seems to have finally helped the concept click for him and I am looking forward to teaching him more concepts with this set over the summer. (My son is 7 and just finished first grade) The items I used with this set was a dry erase pocket that I put a paper into which I drew a place value chart on and the place value dice set that I had also gotten off of Amazon.I had my son roll the dice and had him write the numbers on the chart where they belong to make the number then I went over how to read the number. The next step in our process of learning place value is that I had him pull the correct amount of different value blocks from this base ten set according to the number we had written on the board that was derived from the dice. The last step is what kept his interest through the whole ordeal because my son has trouble concentrating normally and that was that I let him make a unique tower creation using only the blocks he pulled for that number so that every time he makes a tower it will be different because the amount of blocks allowed for it were different.I am very happy to have finally broken through with this concept for him before he hits second grade where they will most likely have taken for granted that he already knew this.I would also like to note that when stacked the hundreds flats resemble the thousands block so my son was able to accurately see how they related and surprised me by doing this himself and telling me what it meant. I was so sure he didn't have this concept down before and my paper set I made could not show this. The sizes of the squares in each increment piece is just as comparable from the ones to the tens to the flats to the cube which is helpful.If there is one drawback from this set it is that there is only one thousand cube, but I knew this upon purchase and I know that if more were in included the price would be higher. For my son's present education level I am content to limit him to 2000 and below for addition and subtraction and place value.

Game changer for my son. He's a handsome on and visual learner so this has help him grow in math class. The teacher uses it at school and we use it at home! Great for any age range, perfect size for little hands, I love the variety of types of pieces, and my son really likes that they are blue.

These helped my daughter with math so much more when adding more than 2 digit numbers, she loves to play with them and make different math equations.

This was as great kit. I had two cubes purchased from School Smart, and I like the quality of the Learning Resources items better. I purchased the kit to help my Kindergartner with numbers and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the Activity Book that was included for Grades 3-6. The flats, rods, and units came individually packaged inside the box. Our box of units was ripped, and we were missing one unit. Not a huge deal, but I'll be contacting the seller to see if they can send another one. The box itself is able to hold all of the items included, plus two additional cubes and still be closed. It's a heavy duty box, so we'll be able to use it to store everything away nicely when not in use. It was definitely worth the money!Update: I contacted Learning Resources Customer Service about the missing unit. I could have returned the whole product to Amazon, but I didn't want to mess with returning a large box when I was only missing a tiny piece. Customer Service was fantastic! They didn't have the blue units as a replacement piece, but offered to send me ten yellow ones if I didn't care about the color. I didn't mind having a different color if it meant I didn't have to deal with a return. I highly recommend this product and the company.

Actual rating probably closer to 4.5 stars. I bought these a few years ago and, I must say, they have really held up well! My favorite part about these is that they are plastic, not the foam that a lot of these sets are made out of. With foam, I feel like they get dirty easily but with these, they stayed pretty clean. If they did get dirty, they were super easy to wipe down; I've even written on them in Expo marker and it wipes right off!My ONLY complaint would be organizing them. They come in a good sized box but I also like to assess how things can be stored in my classroom/ if the students can put them back without assistance and these items are harder to get back into the box nice and neat where the lid closes. So, for the organized teacher, you'll probably want to use/purchase a separate storage option which is the reason for knocking off half a star.

As a former teacher, I purchased these for my grandchildren; great quality and perfect to teach base ten. The size of the set is great as well, but you may need more if dealing with larger numbers.

My preschool and Kindergarteners enjoy making numbers with these. We also make numbers and build things with the blocks...which I never really thought of as a use, that was a kid created activity that shows their creativity and also a sense of number and spatial awareness.