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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.
ReDonna R. –
I love this! This has really helped during our math time!!
Caroline C. –
Simple and concrete for teaching the understanding of 10’s.
Carmen M. –
This is perfect. I find more and more first graders need help with this! Maybe you could make one for making 5!
Elizabeth L. –
Excellent resource! Thanks!
Danielle C. –
This is a really great resource to help my students make 10s.
Fashion Craze Learning Days –
I was looking for activities to help my kindergarten students with composing and decomposing numbers and this is definitely it! I love how easy they are to prep, explain and use too. Thank you for this awesome resource!
Rachel Kelzenberg –
Thank you! love!
Jane Clay Kephart –
Thanks for creating and sharing this great resource. I have used this as a review for teaching adding to 10. However, we will start the year with it when we teach it next year because this resource is filled with great things. Thanks so much:)!
Alexandra V. –
This is such an important first grade skill. I am excited to start using it!
Beth Balch –
Great
Lisa K. –
lots of great practice materials
Andrea Kacher –
Great Resource!
Delores S. –
Can’t wait to use this when making 10!!!
JENNIFER T. –
i loved this
Stephanie Haggard –
So many great activities to help students have a solid grasp on making 10!
Katy Flannery –
What a wonderful product! Thank you!