DecaCards is a classroom visual aid and teacher activity resource for teaching place value that is based on a familiar and powerful representation of ten: fingers.
Designed to help young students in Years F-1 see ten as 10 ones or 1 ten, and to further develop an understanding of two-, three-, and four-digit numbers, the DecaCards Kit includes:
- 400 laminated cards (50 x 50 mm) showing finger representations of each number from 0–9
- 300 laminated cards (50 x 50 mm) each showing finger representations of 10
- 20 laminated strips (600 x 80 mm) each showing 100
- 6 laminated charts (600 x 600 mm) each showing 1000
- teacher instructions for lesson planning using DecaCards
- 10 sample lessons
- durable storage box
