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Making Ten to Add & Subtract: A Live Workshop for K–2 Teachers
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Help students build strong number sense as they explore combinations to 10 with hands-on Making 10 activities, addition games, ten frames, math centers, and assessments designed for Kindergarten and 1st grade. Making 10 is more than memorizing addition facts.
Help students build strong number sense as they explore combinations to 10 with hands-on Making 10 activities, addition games, ten frames, math centers, and assessments designed for Kindergarten and 1st grade.
Making 10 is more than memorizing addition facts.
Ten is an important benchmark students can use to reason about numbers. When students understand how 10 can be composed and decomposed, they begin seeing relationships they can use for addition, subtraction, place value, and future mental math.
This resource gives students repeated opportunities to build 10, practice combinations to 10, use ten frames and manipulatives, and explain the number relationships they notice.
A teacher-friendly Making 10 Learning Progression helps you choose the activities and practice that match what you notice in your students’ thinking. Use the activities during whole-group math, number talks, small groups, intervention, or independent math centers.
⭐ Making 10 Learning Progression
Activities are organized around three stages of student thinking:
BUILD 10
Students build, break apart, and represent 10 in different ways while beginning to see 10 as a whole made of smaller parts.
PRACTICE COMBINATIONS TO 10
Students get repeated practice with combinations that make 10 through familiar, low-prep games and routines.
MODEL & EXPLAIN RELATIONSHIPS
Students use ten frames, equations, manipulatives, and words to show and explain how two parts make 10.
The goal isn’t speed. It’s helping students see 10 as a structure they understand, trust, and can use flexibly.
🧮 Included in This Making 10 Resource
Teacher Support + Assessments
Making 10 Activities & Routines
Making 10 Games & Math Centers
Ten Frames, Number Cards & Math Tools
Additional Practice & Extensions
👩🏫 Perfect For Kindergarten and 1st grade teachers can use these Making 10 activities for math centers, small-group math, number talks, intervention, whole-group lessons, morning work, or extra addition practice.
Students can use counters, connecting cubes, fingers, ten frames, and other visual models as they develop their understanding. The activities are designed to be reused as students become more confident recognizing and explaining combinations that make 10.
💡 Why Making 10 Matters
Students don’t need another stack of addition facts to memorize.
They need opportunities to see how numbers fit together.
Building a strong understanding of combinations to 10 gives students an important foundation for addition and subtraction fluency, number relationships, place value, and mental math strategies they’ll continue using as the numbers get bigger.
Structure first. Confidence follows.
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Join me for a hands-on workshop exploring what to model, which questions to ask, and how to respond when students get stuck using ten to add and subtract.
Includes a printable Teacher Toolkit, ready-to-use Number Talks, and the workshop recording.
Tricia B. –
This ties in nicely with a very important skill of making ten. My students especially liked the shake and spill game!
Amy Dickerman –
Resource is easy to use and works well for my students.
Jennifer Gates –
This was perfect for my first graders! Thank you so much for this wonderful resource!
Fireworks in First –
These have been fantastic when teaching partners of 10 to my students – thank you for making such high quality and easy to use resources!
Christine Ferranti –
My students loved this work! It kept them engaged. Thank you.
Laura A. –
Fun, engaging, easy to follow center activities. My class enjoyed doing these activities.
Pam H. –
This was a great resource to help my students understand making ten!
Jen B. –
These activities were fantastic for helping my students practice making 10. They really enjoyed the different center activities and lessons. They particularly liked the hand craft. Thank you!
Karen A. –
My students have enjoyed the activities in this resource. It is really helping them learn the ways to make 10.
sarah carter –
Great resource! My students enjoyed this resource.
Melissa B. –
My students loved using these activities.
Kimberly D. –
Great resource for my students. Thank you.
Stacey Northern –
Thank you!
Page W. –
I absolutely love the fact that the paper hands help kids count on their fingers, but without actually counting on their fingers. You made a excellent resource with strategies and activities that I never would have EVER thought of on my own. Thanks for making math fun!
Julie V. –
Loved it all! So fun, easy to follow and well organized lessons and a well done final assessment. Thank you!
Brianne D. –
Great thank you!