Place Value Blocks — 10 — free printable diagram

What is 10 in place value blocks?

These base-ten blocks show 10. Reading the columns from the largest block down gives 1 ten rod.

Number

10

In words

ten

Tens

1

Ones

0

• Base-ten blocks show a number as the blocks that make it: single cubes for ones, rods of ten, flats of one hundred and large cubes of one thousand. Counting the blocks in each column gives 1 ten rod.
• There is no ones block here, which is exactly what the 0 stands for in 10 — the column is empty but it still has to be written, or the other digits would slide into the wrong place.