Teaching with Dienes Blocks

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Teaching with Dienes Blocks

Dienes block are an incredibly powerful manipulative. This course shows how they can be used to enhance the understanding of fundamental maths topics such as place value and the four operations.

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What are Dienes blocks?

In this section, you will be provided with a brief introduction to the Dienes blocks.

Introduction to the course

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What are Dienes blocks?

Preview

Counting and place value

This section of the course looks at how Dienes block can be used to make sense of our base 10 place value system.

Numbers, Numerals and Digits

Exchanging

Addition

This section of the course shows how we can model addition using Dienes blocks.

Addition (57+45)

Addition (166 + 157)

Addition - Worksheet

Subtraction

This section of the course shows how we can model subtraction using Dienes blocks.

Subtraction 63 – 27 (right to left)

Subtraction 63 – 27 (left to right)

Subtraction 142 – 58

Subtraction - Worksheet

Multiplication

This section of the course shows how we can model multiplication using Dienes blocks.

Multiplication 14 × 3

Multiplication 12 × 13 (link to grid method)

Multiplication - Worksheet

Division

This section of the course shows how we can model division using Dienes blocks.

Division 65 ÷ 5

Division 182 ÷ 14

Division - Worksheet

Length, Area and Volume

This section of the course explores the length, area and volume using Dienes blocks.

Surface area of Dienes blocks

Surface Area - Worksheet

Behaving Mathematically

This section of the course gives an opportunity to behave mathematically with Dienes block and explore links between arithmetic and algebra.

Choose 3 from 9 (Intro)

Choose 3 from 9 (Base 10)

Choose 3 from 9 (Algebra tiles intro)

Choose 3 from 9 (Base x)

Course summary

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