K-5 Math Teaching Resources
Base Ten Mat (Tens and Ones with Tens Frame)
Working with base 10 blocks? Use this base 10 mat to organize blocks, tens and ones with one ten frame, and determine how many groups of blocks can be used to represent numbers.
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Tens and Ones Fun
Youngsters use their large motor skills to build numbers to 20 in this outdoor, kinesthetic, collaborative activity. Amass cardboard boxes for groups to stack, sort, and bundle into 10s and 1s to show numbers and place value. They'll...
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
Base Ten Cards (tens and ones)
Strengthen your class's understanding of place value with this series of base-ten flash cards. Including illustrations representing a variety of numbers from 13 to 94, this resource can be used in many different ways to build the numbers...
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Matching Tens and Ones
In this recognizing place values activity, students read two-digit numbers and match them to the box that contains the correct grouping of tens and ones. Students solve six problems.
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Study Buddies: Counting Back Tens and Ones
In this math worksheet, students will work with a coach to solve a problem in which they must subtract by counting back by tens and ones. Students will follow a step-by-step process and notes are provided for the coach.
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Place Value: Tens and Ones
In these recognizing tens and ones worksheets, students count the rods and units and write the numbers in the tens and ones columns, write the correct numbers for the given tens and ones, covert words to the correct numerals, and...
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Counting On Tens or Ones
In this mathematics worksheet, 1st graders count on tens or ones. They identify how many ones and tens that they are counting for each. Then, students write the sum for each problem.
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An Easier Way to Count: Using Groups of 10
Students explore their counting skills. In this counting lesson, students group objects in sets of 10 to practice counting them. Students also practice graphing the sets of objects they count. This lesson incorporates the use a video...
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Name the Number: Count Tens and Ones
In this counting learning exercise, students use pictures of cubes to count groups of tens and ones, then write the numbers they count next to the pictures.
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Tens and Ones Grouping
In this tens and ones worksheet, students circle groups of tens, ten groups of ones in sets of items, writing the total amount counted next to each set, 3 total.
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Tens and Ones
In this tens and ones worksheet, students count numbers of shapes in groups, writing the number of tens and ones in each set, then writing the total number beside each.
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One and Tens Place Value
Counting is much easier when the objects are arranged in groups of 10! This place-value practice sheet helps young mathematicians grasp ones and tens place value through three exercises. First, they complete three missing addend...
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Ones and Tens Place Value
As scholars examine place value, these exercises help them incorporate addition and grouping. First, they answer three missing-addend questions, each with 10 as the given addend. Because all of the missing numbers are single-digit, this...
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Tens and Ones Grouping Worksheet
In this place value worksheet, students solve 3 problems that require them to create 2-digit numbers using the math shape counters.
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Tens and Ones Matching Worksheet
In this place value practice worksheet, students solve 6 problems that require them to match 2-digit numbers to their descriptions.
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Stand By Me!
Get your little mathematicians moving with this experiential activity in which one child is the "tens" and another is the "ones." They collect the number of unifix cubes (in tens or singles) assigned to their respective place values and...
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Ones and Tens
Students identify the relationship between ones and tens in place value. They use place value mats and straws to identify tens and ones and group the ones to represent tens. After writing and discussing the numbers 10 and 20 they...
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Playing with Tens and Ones
First graders complete a number of activities that increase their number sense and use of simple operations. They use dice and worksheets to make two-digit numbers and to record them, they count by tens and ones, and order numbers using...
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Roll & Build
Develop young mathematicians' understanding of place value with this hands-on math activity. Working in pairs, learners take turns building two-digit numbers by rolling two ten-sided dice. Base ten blocks are then used to model the...
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Tens and Ones
In this counting by groups worksheet, students practice counting by tens and then by ones. Students count the rows of ten and single cubes and then write how many cubes there are all together.
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“Crossing the Decade” Concentration
Young mathematicians concentrate on learning to fluently count. Following the rules of the classic game Memory, children take turns flipping over cards in order to find pairs of numbers that cross a decade (e.g. 29 and 30). For younger...
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Study Buddies: Adding Two-Digit Numbers
Some times a simple instructional activity is all you need. Here are 2 worksheets that can be used as a instructional activity on problem solving, addition, and partner work. The first worksheet has learners use a tens and ones charts to...
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Counting Seeds
Students practice skip counting strategies, estimation, and higher number addition. They estimate the number of seeds in bell pepper, and count seeds in groups of tens and ones after the teacher removes seeds from the pepper.
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Groups of Ten Ones
In this place value worksheet, students circle groups of "ten cubes" and write how many tens they counted all together. Students are grouping cubes in ten's.