How Many to Make 10? Free Number Sense Worksheets

Ways to make 10 is an important benchmark for students, especially as they head into addition and subtraction. Becoming fluent in “how many to make 10” is a fantastic tool for mental math, and when students begin adding larger numbers (especially in the upper grades), having mastered 10 is a critical skill.

Kindergarten Math Skills include:

• counting to 10
• number recognition
• number sense
• subitizing

Kindergarten Math Standards

K.CC.B.5
Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.

SK.CC.B.4b
Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

K.CC.B.4a
When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.

K.CC.B.4
Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

K.CC.A.3
Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).

How Many to 10 Worksheets

How Many to 10 Pg 1

Google Slides Lessons

Students add snowflakes to a 10 frame and then count how many it took to make 10. Students then drag the correct number to the snow globe to show how many it took to make 10.

Digital practice on Google Slides can be assigned through Google Classroom, SeeSaw, or other online learning platforms.

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