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1st grade · Math · Unit 5 of 16

Make 10

Two numbers that make 10

What your child practices

Finding pairs that make 10 (like 6 + 4) with ten frames, fingers and stories. Making 10 is a key strategy for adding.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 1.3(C); 1.3(D) · composing 10 and using make-10 strategies to add within 20

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Some pairs make 10: 6 and 4, 7 and 3, 8 and 2.
  2. Start at one number and count up to 10.
  3. The steps you counted are the other number.

Example: 7 + ? = 10 Start at 7. Count up: 8, 9, 10. That is 3 steps. Answer: 3

Make 10 in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 5 of 16 in 1st grade Math, after Jump by Tens and before Adding.

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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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

    How many more 🔴 make 10?

    🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴⚪⚪⚪⚪
    • 6
    • 4
    • 3

  2. Question 2

    Noah has 2 🍎. How many more to make 10?

    🍎🍎
    • 8
    • 4
    • 3

  3. Question 3

    4 + 6 = 10. So what is 6 + 4?

    6 + 4 = ?

    • 15
    • 10
    • 9

  4. Question 4

    Which two numbers make 10?

    🔟
    • 4 + 8
    • 5 + 5
    • 8 + 4

  5. Question 5

    7 fingers are up. How many fingers are down?

    🙌10 fingers
    • 8
    • 3
    • 6

  6. Question 6

    Which two numbers make 10?

    🔟
    • 6 + 6
    • 6 + 5
    • 6 + 4

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