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Sugar Cube Depot
Created by Argraide
Updated October 27th, 2026
At a glance
- Staff pick
- Picked by the Argraide team
- Play mode
- 📱 Solo
- Format
- 🧊 3D
- Length
- ⏱ About 20 minutes
- Subject
- Math
- Grade
- 3
- Curriculum
- Ontario
- Curriculum codes
- B1.1B1.5B1.2
About this activity
A pastel 3D sugar-cube depot at dawn. Students pack orders on a truck with pallets of 100, crates of 10 and loose cubes, open a pallet into 10 crates (or a crate into 10 cubes) when a size runs out, build the same number another way when stock is low, and compare two loaded trucks to decide which one carries more.
What students learn
- Represent, compose and decompose whole numbers up to 1,000 with hundreds, tens and ones (B1.1)
- Use place value to represent a number with base-ten pieces in more than one way (B1.5)
- Use the rule that 10 of one place make 1 of the next place to regroup (open a hundred into 10 tens, a ten into 10 ones)
- Compare two amounts shown with base-ten pieces, including amounts that need regrouping
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