Ten tens make a hundred. The third row of the frame counts hundreds.
Ten ones make a ten, and ten tens make a hundred.
The third row of the frame counts hundreds. One bead there is worth a hundred, a whole box of marbles.
Each row is worth ten times the row below it.
A thousand is ten hundreds. Three rows show up to 999, so a thousand needs a fourth row, which bigger frames have.
These are some of the questions on the sets. The printable sheets have more, with the bead frame drawn for each, and an answer key.
Ten. Ten tens fill the tens row and trade for one hundred.
200. The tens row fills with ten tens and trades for one bead on the hundreds row.
462. Read the rows from the top: 4, then 6, then 2.
999. Nine beads on every row. A thousand needs a fourth row.
Ask a grown-up to help you find something small, like dried beans or paper clips. Make a pile of ten, then another, until you have ten piles, and that is one hundred! Put them in a bowl to see how big a hundred looks.
Find something small, like dried beans or paper clips, and make ten piles of ten together. That is a hundred. Ten of those would make a thousand, but only to talk about.
