LESSON 1 The TIMS Candy Company

Mr. and Mrs. Haddad own a chocolate factory that makes Chocos. The name of their company is the TIMS Candy Company. They use base-ten pieces to keep track of how much candy they make.

They use a bit for each Choco.

Whenever there are 10 bits, they can be packaged together to make a skinny.

When there are 10 skinnies, they can be packaged together to make a flat. How many Chocos does a flat represent?

A group of 10 flats makes a pack. How many Chocos does a pack represent?

Mr. and Mrs. Haddad write the amounts in numbers on the Base-Ten Recording Sheet. For example, one day the company made 236 Chocos. This is how they recorded the candy:

This is the number sentence that matches the base-ten pieces:

200 + 30 + 6 = 236.