Make a Ten to Add - Addition Strategy Worksheets
- Grades
- Kindergarten–Grade 1
- Pages
- 24
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Addition and Subtraction, Numbers, Early Math, Math
- Topic
- Basic Operations, Math
- Resource types
- Workbooks, Worksheets
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
Practise making ten to add with 24 printable worksheets. Activities include splitting an addend, completing ten frames, combining three addends and finding a missing number to total ten.
Model the strategy before assigning a page and provide your own answer review. Some printed prompts need correction: the first equation on page 1 omits an addition sign; pages 13–14 include 8 + 1 under a 10 + ___ prompt; and page 21 includes 3 + 6 + 5 although no pair totals ten. Select or adapt these items before independent work.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Decompose an addend to make a ten when adding two single-digit numbers
Complete a ten frame and write the matching addition equation
Identify which two of three given numbers combine to make ten
Find the missing addend that completes an equation equal to ten
Teaching tips
Introduce with the ten-frame pages first, since the dot visual supports the more abstract make-a-ten equations that follow.
Since there is no answer key, review answers as a class or prepare a key in advance before assigning independently.
Use the final missing-addend-to-10 pages as a quick daily warm-up to build the automatic ten-combinations the make-a-ten strategy depends on.
Skills covered
Make-a-ten addition strategy — students decompose one addend to complete a ten before adding the remainder, e.g. 8 + 6 becomes 10 + 4.
Ten-frame representation — students complete dot ten frames and translate the visual into a written equation.
Three-addend combinations — students circle two numbers from a set of three that combine to make ten before solving the full sum.
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Make a ten strategy
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Number combinations to 10
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