The introduction to the decimal system is the exploration of the relationship to quantities. Many of the exercises in this section are designed to increase the child’s understanding of symbols and quantities using materials like the 1, 10, 100, and thousand cube. Many of these activities work like games where students guess or count out quantities based on symbols or slips of paper presented to the student. Each step in this process helps them to further understand how the decimal system works, and more importantly what constitutes a given quantity.
