Students will use the base ten blocks to build the number given. Teachers may use this to introduce, model, as guided practice or as an independent activity for students to show what they know. 

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Nicole Neice teach about place value with smaller numbers.

This series of slides uses pictures of base ten blocks to represent numbers from the millions place value to those in the thousandths place value. Each slide changes the value of the base ten blocks by stating the value of either a unit, rod, flat, or large cube. Students are challenged to determine value of a representation or to create a given representation.