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Kindergarten · Math · Unit 2 of 11

Make 5 and 10

Fill frames to 5 and 10

What your child practices

Using 5 and 10 as anchors (fingers, five and ten frames), finding how many more make 5 or 10, and breaking numbers into two parts.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: K.10; K.11 · breaking numbers to 10 into pairs, and finding the number that makes 10

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A ten frame has 10 boxes.
  2. Fill boxes to show a number.
  3. The empty boxes show what is missing.

Example: Show 7 on a ten frame. How many more make 10? Fill 7 boxes. 3 boxes are empty. Answer: 3

Make 5 and 10 in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 2 of 11 in Kindergarten Math, after Count to 10 and before Add & Take Away.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    8 🐟 in all. How many are hiding?

    🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟?
    • 3
    • 1
    • 0

  2. Question 2

    How many more to make 10?

    🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴⚪
    • 3
    • 2
    • 1

  3. Question 3

    Is this less than 5, just 5, or more than 5?

    • less than 5
    • just 5
    • more than 5

  4. Question 4

    5 🐥 in all. How many are hiding?

    🐥?
    • 4
    • 3
    • 2

  5. Question 5

    How many fingers are up?

    🖐️✌️
    • 9
    • 8
    • 7

  6. Question 6

    How many dots in all?

    • 8
    • 9
    • 10

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