The Combo Kit Combo

"What Base Ten Blocks should I get"?

The Deluxe Combo Kit Combo comes with not one, but TWO sets of multi-tens. No longer available. You will have to search for blocks on eBay, Etsy, Craigslist, FB Marketplace, Etc. What blocks should you search for? These. What are they called?

Mortensen Math base ten blocks.

What you see pictured are the top tray, bottom tray, & two multi-tens kits. The top tray is under he multi-tens, he bottom tray is under the top trays with hundreds and tens and extra units...

The top and bottom trays together are called the combo kit. You may not find any if you search for combo kits because people don't call them that, look for Mortensen Math base ten blocks, they come up on eBay every so often.  Homeschool exchanges and market places are good places to look. 

This page used to have ordering information. That time has passed. You get the blocks, i'll teach you how to use them. Crewton Ramone is out of the block procuring business.

Muli-tens are much harder to procure due to the fact that the Mortensen company sold lots of combo kits without the multi-tens for years.  i always encourage one if not two.  Get M0AR Training and you'll SEE why.

They just speed things up. 

NOTE: Crewton Ramone only sells digital products on this website. i need an email address that works. If you order and you don't get your Passwords in 24 hours EMAIL ME. i do not sell physical products anymore. 

By now you see that base ten blocks are far too powerful to just let them be relegated to teaching place value and maybe some addition and subtraction...but with all the stuff available, figuring out what to actually buy can be confusing and with all the material on this website not to mention my blog making a purchase can be daunting. 

People ask me what to get...i say. "get a combo kit, a set of multi-tens and the passwords.

That's it."

Do they listen? Nope. Have to get books, have to get a DCSK (a fine idea if you have $$$ and a gaggle of kids under 12, overkill if you just have one, and inappropriate if that kid is over 14...when in doubt: combo kit, a set of multi-tens and a password (or passwords). 

Can you see why the last seminar company i worked for fired me? LOL.

Maximize sales? NO. Appropriate sales YES.

For most of you, your base ten block needs will be met with a combo kit, multi-tens and my passwords is appropriate and entirely adequate. The DCSK was by far the best deal if you had the cash and the kids...but you can more than just get by with a combo kit, multi-tens and passwords. ANd Last i heard they do not offer the CSK anymore.

You buy the tools (the base en blocks) my blog and my website and to a lesser extent my self will teach you how to use those tools. Promise. Here is the parent teacher training page. This page along with the other password protected pages will make math EZ for you and yours. Passwords are basically all you need to get started. Many don't know it but they need M0AR Training.

Once you get the blocks make sure you get some M0AR Training too. It's great to have the best tools but the best tools will produce shoddy work if you don't know how to use them.

i have been VERY pleased with a couple of sets of parents who were very hesitant and very "afraid" of teaching their kids math, but they "dove in" and things are going GREAT. Have a little faith...and just do it...over the last quarter century I have shown many hesitant parents (and teachers) how easy math can be if you have the right tools and the right mindset.

Learning math (or whatever it is) with anybody but especially your kids is a beautiful thing.

If you are just getting started check out this page.

Passwords will be delivered to you via email within 24hours, usually much sooner. Email me if you don't get them or any digital product within 24 hours.  The email Paypal gave me bounced. 

There are two multi-tens shown here. A Combo Kit comes with no multi-tens, a Combo Kit Combo (CKC) comes with ONE, and the Deluxe Combo Kit Combo comes with two multi-tens. (DCKC).  You might search for these terms but they aren't used in the homeschool community only in the Mortensen Math community. Math U See and/or Mortensen Math base 10 blocks are better search terms. 

These blocks are really useful for making math (and math presentations) EZ, fun, and FAST. Most of all fast. No more fumbling around counting out tens or X's...the mind wants to work quickly and these blocks allow you to do so. Try to find ONE set of multi-tens. Pictured above are TWO sets of multi-tens blocks. If you want to get an extra set of them you can...but one is all you need. And it may be hard to find.

i recommend ebay and craiglist when looking for blocks, and if you have MUS blocks or cuisenaire or other base ten blocks they will work, but i think you will soon find these are the easiest to use and the most versatile.

Proprietary Information.

The information contained on my training pages and password protected pages can be found no where else. In fact most of the information on this website can be found nowhere else. And some of the things you'll learn behind paywalls really are secrets. Math has always been a secret. Pythagoras didn't let his students write anything down. The biggest secret is math is actually easy. 

i am quite pleased with the feed back i've been getting from those who have done Parent Teacher training, especially since i have yet to get around to adding bells and whistles like editing and character generation and such.

Yes, it's low tech low production but the CONTENT is definitely there. Plus you will find lots of PDFs, eBooks and more worksheets that you can download and print if you like for use with the lessons...

If you are on a tight budget $100.00 Crash Course is the way to go.

If you have extra funds ordering books and manuals would the next logical step but you don't need them to get the most out of your blocks. AND now those are VERY hard to come by. Also you can take the cost of the $100.00 training off any other password.

Further this website and my blog obviate the need to buy all the books and manuals.  The PDFs page by itself has much more than $100.00 worth of content. 

Check eBay for blocks.

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

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"I heard that parallel lines actually do meet, but they are very discrete." ~Anon

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i cover a lot in an hour. If you have them get your blocks and play along.