Video Transcript
This place value block is
100. How can we show 300?
In this question, we’re
introduced to a place value block. We already know what ones and
tens blocks look like. We’re told that this blue block
is worth 100. And we can see this because
it’s the same as just pushing 10 tens blocks together. 10 10s are the same as 100 —
10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100. Now to show 100, we just skip
counted in tens. But our question asks us to
show 300. So we’re going to need to skip
count in hundreds — 100, 200, 300. We know that one blue place
value block is worth 100. And so to show the number 300,
we need to use three of these hundreds place value blocks. Three 100s are the same as the
number 300.