Place Value Blocks — 256 — free printable diagram

What is 256 in place value blocks?

These base-ten blocks show 256. Reading the columns from the largest block down gives 2 hundred flats, 5 ten rods and 6 one cubes.

Number

256

In words

two hundred and fifty-six

Hundreds

2

Tens

5

Ones

6

• 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 2 hundred flats, 5 ten rods and 6 one cubes.
• Written in expanded form that is 256 = 200 + 50 + 6, which is the same information as the blocks with the columns written out.