My Look at Expanded Form for 10
Alright, so today I decided to sit down and do a quick refresh on some real basic math stuff. Sometimes I just like going back to the fundamentals, you know? Helps keep things clear in my head. I picked expanded form as my little exercise for the day.
I started working through a few numbers, breaking them down by place value. Pretty simple stuff. Then I got to the number 10.
Okay, number 10. Seemed easy enough. I looked at it. It’s got two digits: a ‘1’ and a ‘0’.
So, following the process:
- The first digit, ‘1’, is in the tens place. That means its value is 1 ten, which is just 10.
- The second digit, ‘0’, is in the ones place. That means its value is 0 ones, which is just 0.
To write it in expanded form, you just add the values of each digit together. So, I put down 10 + 0.
And that was pretty much it. Felt a bit weird writing ‘+ 0’ because, obviously, 10 + 0 is still just 10. But the whole point of the exercise was to show the value of each place, even if it’s zero. So, showing the ‘+ 0’ felt like the right way to represent the breakdown according to the rules I was practicing.
Yeah, not exactly rocket science, but it was a good little mental rep. Just breaking down 10 into its parts: one ten and zero ones. Done and dusted for today’s practice.
