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or
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If you want training on how to use your blocks go here Module II. You can get started for as little as $100.00. There is also a lot of FREE training and lessons sprinkled profusely throughout this website. These should give you ideas and inspiration for making math fun and playful for your toddlers all the way through their teens.  Play math? Yes, it works Maria proved this over 100 years ago. Jerry proved it for decades. i have proven it works for more than three and a half decades. This website and my blog document the fact. My students get hundred percents on tests because once they understand the concepts all they can do is change the numbers. 

If you have product to sell the original idea was to list it here but list on Ebay or where ever and then let me know (send me a link) and i will put it on FaceBook and TikTok, people are always looking for blocks. Just list them at a fair price and they will sell. Eventually. But if you tell Crewton Ramone, you tell the house of math, and they will sell faster, that's all.

More than one kit is optimal but not necessary. But bigger is funner.

If you are looking for plastic base ten blocks read on:

 i no longer sell blocks for the Mortensen Company technically speaking. The reason they cost so much now is, ironically, a direct result of this website and their scarcity and Mortco's ridiculous shipping. People were willing to pay a little more to get their blocks immediately, instead of in 6 - 8 weeks or longer, sometimes much longer: it would be comedy if it wasn't tragedy.  It got to the point where it was cheaper to buy brand new blocks than used ones on Ebay, instead of the other way around. Then Mortco raised their prices to match Ebay BUT they didn't/don't match Ebay's shipping speed. People don't want negative feedback on Ebay. Mortco could care less. BTW, if you do buy from Ebay pay the extra couple bucks for shipping because otherwise they could ship it immediately but then it takes 4 weeks to come by snail mail. Tell them use "Priority" or "First Class" or Fedex or UPS ground if you are in one of the 48 states. If you are across an ocean a few extra bucks can mean the difference between days and WEEKS. 

People always ask what should I get? Seriously: a combo kit.  Start there you can always add more and more is funner because you can build bigger. Same with passwords, you don't have to spend $1249.00 all at once although may have found charter schools will foot the bill if you invoice them properly. Never had a charter school Funds Manager look over my website and say, "No".  Usually, they are amazed that it is a one time fee.

A combo kit and a set of multi-tens and some TRAINING and/or a Passport and you are good to go! 

Now you can buy passwords in modules so your initial cash outlay doesn't have to be as high and you still get them for life. $1249.00 is going to take you from toddler to teen.

These blocks work just fine.

It doesn't matter what kind of base 10 blocks you have, this website will help you use them to best effect; however, many parents/teachers have figured out that their base 10 blocks are inferior for many applications.  There are also base 10 blocks that are practically identical to Mortensen math blocks, and many factions kits that are exactly the same from various companies. Either way they are of little use if you don't know how to use them, you now have no excuse, and if you decide to spend $1249.00 understand it come with the responsibility to inform and teach others. This is also how you exhibit mastery. Start with your own sons and daughters. 

If you already have some kind of base ten manipulatives then all you need is training on how to use them. Modules facilitate this, by showing you theory in practice as well as theory. FREE Montessori Training can be found in the Liberal Arts section of the house of math: the Trivium. Who better to teach you than Maria herself?

Theory AND Theory in practice.

Module One is designed to give you the big picture, the bird's eye view & give you tools to use with your base 10 blocks in the form of PDF and video so you can get started immediately. 

Module Two gives you training right down to the nitty-gritty. You get detailed training on the Mortensen Methodology which is based on the Montessori Method whose roots are based in the classical method. These trainings are second to none. If you already use base ten blocks you will enjoy them immensely, if you are new to all of this prepare to be blown away, i will blow your mind. i reveal some very closely guarded "pedological secrets" that will make you an effective purveyor of mathematical concepts. You will exhibit mastery. You will understand well enough to teach others. Guaranteed. But you have to be willing to play.

Module Three & Four and the Algebra Course gives you actual lessons...lessons you can implement easily in your homeschool or classroom, the Algebra Course is direct instruction AND now you get Module IV when you buy the Algebra course separately. You will understand and even be able to "think" algebraically after you complete going through the course material. You should also have your teens take some of the liberal arts courses linked here particularly LOGIC.

i, of course am partial to the Mortensen Math blocks, but as you probably already know, acquiring them can be challenging. Mortensen Company often takes 6 to 8 weeks to deliver.  For Mortensen blocks check Anna's Math Page. Digital products like passwords and PDFs are delivered immediately though, so i often tell people to order their blocks and then spend time on my website, so that when they come you'll be (more than) ready to use them.  It will take you longer than 6-8 weeks to get through all the information on this website, though but you can certainly get through some training. 

Many moms cry tears of joy because they finally understand the math that they didn't learn in highschool and now that the fear is removed, they feel confident to play math with their children/students. You don't need to know everything to get started.  This website is designed to take you from counting through calculus. Using the Mortensen Method. You can't learn everything at once...so begin where you are most interested, or where you think your students or sons and daughters currently are, but you can start literally anywhere. You could start with Mod III..even though 3 is bigger than 1 and many want to start a "the beginning".

You could begin with Module II if you are interested in teaching or you are homeschooling or looking for a really fun side hustle which could turn full time. Get trained and you can easily make $60.00 an hour. i have more than few people who took this information and turned it into a full time business. Do the math, what is $60.00 x 40? You could do 40 hours in a month or every 10 days and play ("work") a brutal 4 hours a day. You will have to play blocks with little boys and girls or show their parents how to...it really is FUN.  Because math is fun when you learn it this way! It is no fun at all and may be even traumatic when taught by some, well meaning or not.  This method shows you how to teach math without anxiety, frustration or tears...except for the tears of joy

Old info:

POSTAL RATES HAVE GONE UP AGAIN!  Especially Australia but also CANADA or U.K...postage to the land down under is high. Expect an invoice for the additional shipping.

Ballpark to Austrailia/Eastern Europe about $95...just for shipping.

Orders need PH#'s to ship.  If you don't include your phone number this will delay your order.

All physical orders: expect 6 to 8 weeks wait time in the USA. Sometimes they ship faster but not always.

Get a combo kit, and get started with sample lessons. Simple.

If you have a little more money (and who doesn't in these excellent economic times?) and multiple sons and/or daughters who are under ten, get a curriculum starter kit. But if you just want to get started, a combo kit is step one. They don't make the CSK anymore. 2025.

Better than that is a combo kit combo which was just a bottom and top tray and TWO multi tens kits. But all you really need is a combo kit. i show you how to use it for EVERYTHING. At the elementary level there is nothing the combo kit can't do.

You can easily "get by" with "just" a combo kit.

Deluxe Combo Kit Combo. Top Tray. Bottom Tray. TWO sets of Multi-Tens.

You must get your hands on the blocks!

Your sons and daughters need to get their hands on the blocks. Just watching videos will not suffice.  They have to play along in order for this method to be effective. Watch videos build problems, draw problems and finally write the symbols...the magic, if there is magic is the tactile; the kinesthetic component. Maria Montessori discovered this early on. i discovered this pragmatically when i was a traveling math salesmen, and the correlation between sales in seminars where we had blocks and seminars where we did not have blocks was direct.  When everybody had a set of blocks sales were phenomenal, unheard of sales ratios, because when people understood math concepts often for the first time, the decision to buy blocks and training was a no brainer.  If i had shippig issues or blocks did not arrive on time sales were miserable because the key ingredient was missing. YOU-HAVE-TO-GET-YOUR-HANDS-ON-THE-BLOCKS.

If you have a school or tutoring business the "combo kit" or case of combo kits is a good place to start. Try to have a combo kit for every four students, more is better. You can stretch it to six but four is better. i have been in situations where we had one kit per 10 students, you have to get creative and let them take turns.

$1249.00

A Combo kit & MULTI-TENS (Combo Kit Combo) and passwords really will get you going and as you can tell from the testimonials "change your math life." If you have a combo kit or other suitable blocks (MUS etc.) get a password or a passport and you are set. Get a Passport and you are set for life. 

Personally, i would start if you are going to home school in the liberal arts section, with particular attention on the trivium. You have not reached a destination you have begun a journey. i am here to direct your discovery of very specialized knowledge. There is a class of people who would prefer you not have it. With this knowledge comes responsibility. Once you learn it, you show mastery by teaching others. This is a fundamental classical education concept: the ability to teach it to others exhibits mastery. Whatever "it" is. In this case the Mathematics. 

In Module two and three you will see why having two sets of multi tens is advantageous if you can find and afford them. A combo kit with two multi tens is called a "Deluxe Combo Kit Combo."

BUT

$$$$$You don't need thousands of dollars of math manipulatives.$$$$$

This will be your "go to" set of blocks for most of the mathematics Presented on this website.  You will see hours of lessons showing you how to use these manipulatives to best effect. Montessorians are used to having many different manipulatives, if you know how to use them more is better but Jerry and i have proven that you can do & teach just about all of it with just the combo kit. It's nice to have more but you don't need thousands of dollars of math manipulatives, a single combo kit will suffice.  

Check eBay for blocks.
or
Anna's Math Page

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Multi-Tens

These are called multi-tens.  They make math fast and easy so you don't have to fumble around with individual tens or x's when building larger problems. The mind wants to work quickly, don't get bogged down in computation or "get lost in the model" because you have inferior blocks.  On the other hand you don't need to have Mortensen Math blocks to take advantage of this website.  You will learn how to use base 10 blocks and make them into the powerful tools they were meant to be.

Then you can add more manipulatives like this:

Fractions Kit With Tray

Fractions Kit Description: (NOW the Fractions Kit has its own page just like the combo kit.) i also show you how to use fractions tiles creatively for teaching more than "just" fractions, so you get the most value from the manipulatives you do have. Over the years i have found people are not using their materials to best effect because they don't know how, this is an oral tradition and exceptionally specialized knowledge.  Many people acquire these powerful tools and then only use them to teach place value, addition and subtraction and in the case of the fractions tiles only use them to teach basic fractions. i show you how to unlock their potential and use them masterfully. Once you see it, you will SEE how SIMPLE and effective these techniques are. 

Details:

Mortensen Company's policies last i checked.

1. Free shipping to Continental USA Destinations (Not Alaska, Hawaii, or outlying USA Territories).
2. International Shipping is billed by Mortensen Math World Headquarters prior to shipment.
3. No Cash Refunds. Credit exchange only with RMA. Email first for RMA: MortensenMath at iCloud.com.
4. When your order is received by Mortensen Math World Headquarters you will receive a CONFIRMATION email.
5. Please allow 6-6 weeks for receipt of your order. If you have not received it or heard from us within 3 weeks please request ORDER STATUS at: MortensenMath at iCloud.com.
6. When your order is shipped by Mortensen Math World Headquarters you will receive a TRACKING email that includes an ETA.

"Your method of teaching math is Perfect!! We are playing the games from your free pdf on math games. He is CRAZY about the bucket game. He wears me out with the game but it is wonderful to see him excited about math." ~PS, IL

Curriculum Starter Kits $551.25 or $420.00: (Now has its own page just like the combo kit.) The DSK is the whole kit and caboodle. Basically is a lot more than 551 bucks worth of stuff crammed into a box. This kit is for people with kids 10 and under!! If you have three or four kids this kit is the best value by far. And they now no longer make it. But if you can do a little math you can see the combo kits used to be much less pricey. Many people make "lowball" offers on kits or get them to throw shipping in for free or upgrade the shipping for free. 

Not for high school or college students. If you have 10 to 13 year olds get Lvl 1 and Lvl 2 books instead of smiley face books. If they older than that you are a little late and you may want to set up a consultation. But it's never too late if they WANT to learn, and i have had great success preparing students for college, including autistic students. Sarah was just one that i documented. 

After a lot of hanranging, and Jerry's death, i have stopped selling for Mortenson Company. They have updated the series A Manuals. But basically you used to get everything you see here. 

To this day, expect them to take 6 to 8 weeks to fill your orders. 

The video is dated but it does cover what you get.  It no longer comes in a big white box...and then they stopped making them altogether.

All of these prices have changed:

You can look at this old Price List for details and t learn the names of their products.

1 Combo Kit. $95.00
1 Fractions Kit. $120.75
1 Basic Ops Kit. W/ 10,000 square and extra 1,000 (20) and 100 strips. (10) $75.00 MAKE THIS YOURSELF.
1 Multiple Tens Kit. $42.00.
50 Smiley face Books. $137.50
Set of lvl One Books. $137.50
Lvl 1 Teachers Manual. $40.00
Addition and Multiplication Facts Mastery Books. $60.00
Series A Manuals. $35.00
Skip count CD & Coloring Books.  $24.99

Modules to hours of Videos and many pages of PDF's. NOT INCLUDED.

That was about $650.00 worth of stuff at retail. Not hyperbole, get a combo kit and a password and for much less than that you can get going. 

They have the "NEW" Series A Manuals in and now they used to include a 10,000 square too, with the deluxe CSK kit you got Addition Facts Mastery books & Multiplication Facts mastery books; with the lower priced kit you choose smiley face OR Lvl 1, you didn't get both (with the Deluxe kit you got both & you can get level one and level two instead of Smilely Face if you need to)...also note they charge 2.75 per book so these prices are rounded DOWN not up...

Mortensen Company books are NOT uniform (they also ran out of the signature white & red boxes and never got more)...bamboo steamer and steak knives will not be included with your order.

They use Fedex for most items which is why they require a ph#...they need it for delivery and incase they can't find your house etc.

Also note: unless specified your package(s) come(s) with SIGNATURE REQUIRED.

i'm not ever calling you unless something is wrong...

From Mortco:

1. Free shipping to Continental USA Destinations (Not Alaska, Hawaii, or outlying US Territories).
2. International Shipping is billed by Mortensen Math World Headquarters prior to shipment.
3. No Cash Refunds. Credit exchange only with RMA. Email first for RMA: MortensenMath at iCloud.com.
4. When your order is received by Mortensen Math World Headquarters you will receive a CONFIRMATION email.
5. Please allow 3-6 weeks for receipt of your order. If you have not received it or heard from us within 3 weeks please request ORDER STATUS at:

MortensenMath at iCloud.com.

(Email address formatted to thwart spam crawlers).

6. When your order is shipped by Mortensen Math World Headquarters you will receive a TRACKING email that includes an ETA.

BOOKS! They may ave books in stock. They are not uniform; however.

The Modules give you hours and hours of training, lessons, and examples on how to use base ten blocks effectively ad have fun doing it. This training used to cost $1000.00's when you include travel and lodging because the only place you could get this kind of instruction was going to training in lovely Coeur d'ALene Idaho...your lodging alone would've been more than my Passport including the Algebra course.

Click Module II for free training excerpts, and info on training: currently there are hours & hours there...98% of which you won't find anywhere else.  It is unique content on the entire web. This is an oral tradition. This is also a tradition of learning that never went away for the upper class.  You will not find content that duplicates my trainings and lessons anywhere else.  Similar training and lessons are usually conducted by people i ave trained but am not formally affiliated with, they are independant.

Passwords change every few months or so... 

Passwords, are the same for everybody. You do not get to create a user id and password.

PASSWORD INFO:

Considering this info is unavailable anywhere on the net that i've been able to find, i'd say my Modules are a deal. Not to mention I charge $60 an hour and there are HOURS AND HOURS of video and instruction available to you with your passwords. As you should be able to tell by perusing my site, you will get more than $1249.00 bucks worth of info here.

Even if the PDFs and videos were worth only a dollar apiece, there are more than 1300 of them on this website.  Don't get overwhelmed. Start with Getting Started, move on to module one...The EZ PZ Overview will clear things up for you in an evening. Again this is meant to go from toddler to teen, you aren't even getting through the info on the Trivium page in a week end. You are embarking on a journey.

Get into the PDFs page which has several PDFs for younger students as well a 10 Page practice sheet for making change. The average student gets out of highskool and can't make change or do basic fractions.

If the password changes before your full term has been used up or if you got a Lifetime Passport, just email me with NEW PASSWORD in the subject line. Be sure to include your transaction ID from Paypal (and what page you are trying to get into if need be).

"I was wowing through the whole video at how easy you made that!" ~Elizabeth S. From California.

"@CrewtonRamone Totally under-rated math-communicator: ur manipulatives, methods n math-insight should be taught to every math teacher by law" ~MerryMakes on Twitter

Percentages are also among the vids on the protected pages...and you won't find percentages with base ten blocks like this anywhere else. And you will be shocked and amazed at how easy i make it because you can SEE it. 

Currently do not have the capability for a master password on this site.

Product Exchange.

Also, i know a very few of you have base ten products stowed away, Mortensen Math kits may be filling your garage or basement...Jerry was famous for selling people 1000's of dollars worth of material that they were supposed to turn around and re-sell.  For a 20% fee i will list them for you and try to match buyers with sellers who have like new or used products with people who want to buy like new or slightly used products. Contact me for more info if you have product you'd like to sell.  Or you could just list them on eBay and let me know about it and i will post your link to an "active buying audience".

Check eBay for blocks.
or
Anna's Math Page

Here is my PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/CrewtonRamone

If you need to, contact me for help.

After all that, are still not sure what to get?  Contact Me and set up a free consultation. i'll clear things up for you in 15 minutes or less.  i just need to know a little about your situation. Take advantage of all the free stuff on this website first.  Get a combo kit. Get started. It will be fun and rewarding. 

HOME

Here is a link to my iPhone App.
Curriculum Starter Kit. 
The "combo kit" or case of combo kits. 
                  Fractions Kit.
                  Books.

MOD II
M0AR Training
FREE MONTESSORI Training. 
LOGIC

“Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.” ~Peter F. Drucker

"Buy Quality once." ~Proverb

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking". 

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected". 

The math rich environment is such a place. i show you how to create it.