Ways to make ten

Make your own ten-parts card. Choose safe pieces, marks, tactile objects or tell an adult where to move them.

  1. Show the whole and each part.
  2. Try another split using the same objects.
  3. Check what stayed the same. Keep a useful plan or change it.

Choose a job: Ten drawing marks, Ten game tokens, Ten blank labels. Use a smaller amount when useful. An empty part is zero.

My paper organiser · Part Builder · Models and empty spaces.

Grown-up help

Full teacher plan. If zero is treated as missing work, place all ten objects in one region and point to the empty region. If only one split is copied, move one object and recount both parts. Use local safe materials and usual communication/access supports. Child-directed adult physical work and child mathematical choice stay distinct. Preserve first thinking before feedback; a drawing is not an actual outside inventory or performance event.

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