u/bearsfromalaska

Has anyone else had a student be disappointed there is no golden bead material to represent 10000? I had a group of children this year who loved using the golden bead material to make "big numbers" and kept asking me about a ten thousand cube. A couple even tried to make one, using tape and the thousand cubes from the bank, but it not being a cube was disappointing for them. We talked about how because 1000 the first unit, we could think about the thousand cube like a unit bead, and that a 10000 object would probably look like a 10, and I think that worked for them. But man, they were really looking forward to getting to use some sort of hypercube.