Place Value Blocks — 12 — free printable diagram

What is 12 in place value blocks?

These base-ten blocks show 12. Reading the columns from the largest block down gives 1 ten rod and 2 one cubes.

Number

12

In words

twelve

Tens

1

Ones

2

• 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 and 2 one cubes.
• Written in expanded form that is 12 = 10 + 2, which is the same information as the blocks with the columns written out.