This will help students who are studying quadratic equations and other expressions such as “x cubed plus x squared plus x plus 1” to recognize that this is simply an extension of the familiar “10 cubed plus 10 squared plus 10 plus 1”, which they learned while studying place value in Base-10. They will recognize that when they were writing numbers in expanded form, they were preparing their minds for when a large cube manipulative, instead of representing 1,000 or even 1,000 thousandths, represe