{ "id": "wooden-hundred-board", "sku": "wooden-hundred-board", "title": "Wooden Hundred Board Number Tile Set", "slug": "wooden-hundred-board", "price": 59.99, "currency": "AUD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "easels-art-and-globes", "category_label": "Easels Art And Globes", "tags": [], "colors": [], "materials": [], "dimensions": null, "weight": "0.35 kg", "images": [ "https://mytoys.net.au/dropship-images/easels-art-and-globes/wooden-hundred-board/main-wooden-hundred-board.jpg", "https://mytoys.net.au/dropship-images/easels-art-and-globes/wooden-hundred-board/wooden-hundred-board-2.jpg", "https://mytoys.net.au/dropship-images/easels-art-and-globes/wooden-hundred-board/wooden-hundred-board-3.jpg", "https://mytoys.net.au/dropship-images/easels-art-and-globes/wooden-hundred-board/wooden-hundred-board-4.jpg" ], "description_short": "One wooden board, 100 colour-grouped number tiles, two dice, two dry-erase markers, four activity cards, a wipe cloth and a drawstring storage bag, all ready to use with no batteries and no assembly.", "description": "The problem with the number 100\n\nAsk a young child to count to one hundred and plenty of them can do it. Ask them what one hundred is and the answer gets vague. Counting is a chant. It is a sequence of sounds they have memorised, and memorising a sequence is not the same as understanding a quantity.\n\nThis is the gap a hundred board fills. It takes the sequence and spreads it out in front of the child as ten rows of ten. Suddenly there is a shape to it. Row one holds the single digits, row two holds the teens, and from there the pattern just repeats with a different number in front. A child who has only ever chanted the numbers will often go quiet for a second when they first see that laid out, because the pattern was always there and nobody had shown it to them.\n\nThe wooden version adds the other half of it, which is touch. Tiles get picked up, turned over, placed, moved and knocked out of line. That physical handling is what makes the number stick for a lot of children, far more than looking at a printed chart on a wall.\n\nHow this set works\n\nThe board is a 20.3 cm square grid, 0.8 cm thick, with a space for each number from 1 to 100. The hundred wooden tiles go into those spaces. They are small, which is deliberate, because a tile that needs two hands to position breaks the rhythm of placing a whole row.\n\nThe tiles are grouped in different colours. This is the part people often overlook when comparing a plain number board 1 to 100 with a colour-grouped one. Colour gives the eye something to follow. When a child is partway through filling the grid, the colour bands show them where they are and where the next group starts. It also means you can set tasks like \"put out all the tiles of this colour\" without having to explain the underlying number rule first. The rule shows itself.\n\nThen there are the extras. Four activity cards carry six suggested games, and a separate game suggestion sheet gives you more to work with. The cards have a dry-erase surface, so you write on them, work something out, wipe with the included cloth, and go again. Two dry-erase markers come in the box. Two wooden dice add a chance element, which is usually what tips an activity from a task into a game. The set is listed as a two-player one, and everything packs into a drawstring bag when you are finished.\n\nNo batteries, no charging, no assembly. It comes out of the packaging ready.\n\nWho it suits\n\nThis is for ages 3 and up. It contains small parts, so it is not suitable for children under 3, and that is worth taking seriously with hundred tiny tiles in the room.\n\nAt the younger end of that range, a child will mostly be doing number recognition. Find the 7. Put the first row in order. Match the tile to the space. That alone is plenty of work and it is where a number recognition board earns its keep.\n\nA bit further along, the board becomes a counting tool. Count on by tens down a column. Start at 23 and move five places. See what happens to the pattern. This is where a maths learning board starts doing something a flashcard cannot, because the child can see the distance they moved, not just hear the answer.\n\nOlder again and the same grid supports working with patterns, skip counting and simple arithmetic laid out physically. One of the useful things about a hundred board is that it does not get outgrown quickly. The board stays the same and the tasks you set on it change.\n\nIt works at home and it works in a classroom. A home school maths board gets used by one or two children at a time, which matches the two-player listing well. In a classroom it tends to sit in a maths corner as a station that small groups rotate through. The 20.3 cm size suits a desk or a small group table.\n\nHow to choose between hundred boards\n\nIf you are comparing options, a few things actually matter.\n\nSize is the first. A compact board like this one fits on a kitchen table without taking it over, and at 0.35 kg a child can carry it themselves. Bigger boards look impressive but tend to live in one place because moving them is a job.\n\nWhether the tiles are colour-grouped is the second. Plain boards work, but colour-grouped tiles give you an extra teaching handle at no cost in complexity.\n\nStorage is the third and it is the one people regret ignoring. A set of one hundred small tiles with nowhere to live will shed pieces within a month. The drawstring bag in this set is not a glamorous feature but it is the thing that keeps the set usable in a year's time.\n\nFinally, look at what else is in the box. Dice and dry-erase activity cards mean you have structured things to do from day one. Without them you are inventing every activity yourself, which some people enjoy and others never get around to.\n\nGetting the most out of it\n\nStart simple and resist the urge to run through every activity in the first sitting. Most children get more from ten focused minutes than from an hour that ends in frustration.\n\nA good first session is just filling the board in order while saying the numbers out loud. Do a row at a time if the whole thing feels long. The point is the pattern, not the finish line.\n\nOnce that is comfortable, pull out a handful of tiles from a completed board and ask the child to work out which ones are missing. The gaps in the grid give them a visual clue, so they are reasoning rather than guessing.\n\nThen bring in the dice. Roll, move that many tiles along, say where you have landed. Two dice and two players is a straightforward race across the board, and the counting happens without anybody calling it counting.\n\nThe activity cards cover six games and are a good source of ideas when you have run out of your own. Keep a marker with the cards so you are not hunting for one mid-session.\n\nLooking after the set\n\nWooden items ask very little. Wipe the board and tiles with a slightly damp cloth and dry them straight away. Do not soak them and never put them in a dishwasher. The wipe cloth included with the set is best kept for the dry-erase cards, since marker residue on a cloth is not something you want transferring to the tiles.\n\nStore everything in the drawstring bag between sessions. Counting the tiles back in before you tie it up takes well under a minute and is the single habit that keeps a hundred-piece set complete. Keep the bag somewhere dry and out of direct sunlight.\n\nOnly use dry-erase markers on the activity cards. Permanent marker will not come off, and the cards are a part of the set you will want for years.\n\nThe short version\n\nOne hundred is hard to picture and easy to chant. A wooden hundred board turns it into something a child can see and handle, which is why the format has stayed in classrooms for so long.\n\nThis set gives you a 20.3 cm square board, 100 colour-grouped wooden tiles, two dice, two dry-erase markers, four activity cards, a game suggestion sheet, a wipe cloth and a drawstring bag. No batteries, no assembly, indoor use, ages 3 and up, and not for children under 3 because of the small parts.\n\nIf you want a maths learning board that a child will actually touch rather than look at, this is a sensible place to start.", "llm_summary": "The Wooden Hundred Board is a small indoor counting board game for ages 3 and up. The board measures 20.3 x 20.3 x 0.8 cm, weighs 0.35 kg and is made of wood in a multicolour finish. The set includes one wooden board, 100 wooden number tiles grouped in different colours, two wooden dice, two dry-erase markers, four activity cards, a game suggestion sheet, a wipe cloth and a drawstring storage bag. Six game ideas are supplied on the activity cards, which have a wipe-clean dry-erase surface. It is listed for two players, needs no batteries and requires no assembly. Brand, material detail beyond wood and country of origin are not specified. Contains small parts, not for children under 3.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "Voluntary 14-day change-of-mind returns in original condition, buyer pays return postage; Australian Consumer Law consumer guarantees for faulty goods. 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