Answer to Question #217994 in Algebra for Ndoni

Question

What number is represented by the Dienes blocks, called a block, longs and units in the diagram? With which Dienes blocks will you build the number 7 604?

Answer 1

Base 10 blocks are also called Dienes blocks, Multibase Arithmetic blocks (MAB blocks) or Place Value blocks.

The four types of base ten blocks are named units, rods, flats and cubes.

The unit cubes are worth 1, the long rods are worth 10, the flats are worth 100 and the cube blocks are worth 1000.

Assuming this diagram,

Then, there are 2 Diene flats, 4 diene rods and 3 diene units, which is 200 + 40 + 3, which is 243

7 Diene cubes, 6 diene flats, and 4 diene units are needed to build the number 7604