For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation.
| Name |
Description |
| Make a Ten Your Friend | Students will play a fun game using paper cups and counters to "roll" out combinations to make a ten. |
| Go Fish! Ways to make 10. | Go Fish is a really fun and interactive way to teach kindergartners about the number pairs that equal ten. This hands-on lesson will give students the engaging practice that they need to not only build number bonds to ten but also to find the missing addend and count up to ten. Students will love the Go Fish game and want to play it over and over again! |
| 10 Little Rubber Duckies: Making Sets of 10 | Uh...oh... Some rubber duckies have gone missing. In this fun and interactive lesson, students create groups of 10 using ten-frames and small rubber duck cut-outs. When given a number from 1-9, the students will find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number using a ten-frame and rubber duck cut-outs. The students will also explain how to combine two numbers to create a group of 10. |
| Hungry Penguin! | In this lesson, students will be using counters and ten frames to make a "ten fish dinner" for a hungry penguin named Perry. Perry likes his dinner to have two types of fish, red and yellow, and he always has to have ten fish when he eats.
Students will practice making combinations of ten by beginning with a given number of red fish and working to find how many yellow fish are needed to make a whole dinner of ten fish. After practicing with counters and ten frames, students will record one "dinner" (combination of ten) by drawing counters on a ten frame and/or writing an equation to represent their combination. |
| Wow! That's Ten! | This activity will show students how exciting it can be to find groups of ten. The students must be able to recognize the number that is given as the first addend. They must then be able to work, using counters and a ten frame, toward creating another group that they can add to the first group to total one group of ten. They will work first with a partner using counters and during the assessment they would be expected to work on their own. Their completion of the assessment would show just how much of the skill they have or have not mastered. |
| Number Pairs to Ten | In this lesson, the students will create and write equations for all of the ways to make ten on a ten-frame. |
| Shelves of Shells! | In this lesson students will help the teacher organize seashells on two shelves. Students will represent the number ten as the sum of two numbers and then create an addition sentence to match their "shelves of seashells." Students will also be asked to create all the ways to make ten. |
| You Are a Smart Cookie | The students will use M&M's to find the number that makes 10, for any number from 1 to 9, when added to the given number. Students will record the answer as both a drawing and an equation. |
| Popsicle Math | This lesson explores ways to represent 10. The students will use two sided counters to investigate the ways that 10 can be broken apart and put back together. The students will also work in pairs to collaborate and expand their understanding of the concept. |
| Monster Math - Composing and Decomposing the Number 10 | This activity will have students finding ways to make ten. Students use two colors of linking cubes to make and record equations of ten. |
| Sliding Beads | Students will use number bracelets to practice representing numbers less than or equal to ten as a sum of two numbers. They will manipulate beads to find all possible combinations of making one number. This lesson required students to work with partners. |
| Hidden Cubes | In this lesson, students will play the game "Hidden Cubes" to identify the number of linking cubes hidden when the total is 10. |
| Grouping Fireflies | In this lesson, students will listen to the story Ten Flashing Fireflies by Philomen Sturges. Students will ten represent all of the ways the 10 fireflies were represented in the jar and in the sky. Students will write expressions to match the representations. |
| Filling Crayon Boxes | In this lesson, students are presented with a problem that requires them to add crayons to a partially filled box to make a ten. Students use ten frames and dot stickers of two colors to represent the problem situation and solve. |
| Roll and Find the Missing Ten | In this lesson, students will use a die to generate a number. Then, students will find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number. |
| Ten Whales – Decomposing Number 10 | Students will find the different ways the number 10 can be represented as the sum of two numbers. Students will use whale crackers and part-part whole boards. |
