Exploding Dots - Is That Your Goal?

exploding dots can help students build relationships between the different values in our base ten place system. I am not fine with exploding dots being so emphasized as a way to understand the algorithms. Our goal is not getting more and more proficient at the algrithms, understanding them any better. And if that interests you, go for it. But i don't find it all that particularly helpful in computation. So what can we relate kids to? Ohye, what's the what can we do o? Decimals.