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Number Bonds to 10 with Flowers

April 20, 2016 by Anna Ranson

Create a simple counting game to practise number bonds to 10 using flowers! This is the simplest and quickest little maths game I set up for my 6 year old to help her practise her number bonds to 10. It took about 3 minutes to make and has many opportunities for learning through play.

Number bonds to ten with flowers

Learning the number bonds or pairs to 10 is a really important early maths skill as it helps develop a great mental maths skill for all future maths learning. As long as you know that 6 and 4 make 10, you then know that 16 and 4 makes 20, 60 and 40 makes 100 and so on.

Equipping young children with a really simple, visual way to practise these number bonds is a helpful tool. Learning maths facts through worksheets is particularly unhelpful, as it’s 2-dimensional and only appeals to one type of learning. Learning in a kinaesthetic, hands-on way is absolutely the most effective!

Invitation to count and make number bonds to 10 with flowers

We found an egg carton with 12 holes and cut it down around the edges so that it was left with only 10. Then we simply found some fabric flowers in two different colours and counted out 10 of each into small buckets ready to use. You could use two sets of ANY objects, e.g. coloured lego bricks or small edible items. Use what you have to hand and make it fun!

Using flowers in maths games

The simple idea of this type of 10 frame is that there are 10 spaces and any number of combinations represents 10. I.e. 4 purple flowers and 6 white flowers is 10, 5 purple flowers and 5 white flowers is 10, all 10 flowers is 10 and 0 etc.

Making number bonds to 10 with flowers

Through putting the flowers in and counting them, the various combinations of numbers that form number bonds (or pairs/ partners) to 10 are formed in a clearly visual way.Counting flowers number bonds to 10

The number bonds to 10 are:

0 + 10

1 + 9

2+ 8

3 + 7

4 + 6

5 + 5

6+ 4

7 + 3

8+ 2

9 + 1

10 + 0

Number bonds to 10 using flowers in an egg carton

As a next step you can ask your child to record all of the different combinations as they make them. Then you could make a 20 holed box and practise number bonds to 20.Number bonds to 10 using flowers

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Making number bonds to 10 with two colours of flowers

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Filed Under: Addition, Age, Counting, Flowers, Learn, Loose Parts, Make, Math, Numbers, Problem Solving, Resources, School Age, Subtraction Tagged With: Elementary School, KS1, Maths, Number Bonds, Numeracy, Playful Maths, Primary School

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Comments

  1. Michelle says

    April 22, 2016 at 2:55 am

    This is fantastic! My grand daughter is sitting here with me and I think we’ll try this tomorrow! Thank you for sharing 🙂

  2. Rachel says

    May 5, 2016 at 3:17 pm

    Hi Anna,

    Lovely idea! May I ask you where you got your fabric flowers from, please? I’m one of your continental followers, and will ask my mum in the UK to have a look in her local shops for me if she can ;).

    Thanks, Rachel

    • Anna Ranson says

      May 20, 2016 at 9:51 am

      These were from The Works Rachel 🙂

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