How many more to ten?
A ten-frame, not a row. Two rows of five is the arrangement that makes "three empty" visible without counting them — which is the whole point.
How to use it
The number bonds to ten are the ones worth knowing by heart, and the frame is how they stop being arithmetic and start being a picture: seven fills a row and two more, so three are left. If your child counts the empty boxes one by one, that is fine and correct — the seeing comes later, and it comes from doing this often rather than from being told.
Every page in this pack
Fill to ten
Smaller starts
Printing notes
- Print at 100%, not "fit to page" — scaling shrinks the digits and the whole point is that your child writes them at a steady size.
- Black-and-white and draft mode are fine. Nothing on these sheets depends on colour.
- Slide a sheet into a punched pocket and a dry-wipe pen turns one page into a hundred goes.
The thinking behind it
When Do Kids Learn Addition and Subtraction? Ages & Stages — Read the full guide