Ten-Frame Counting Worksheet

A ten-frame is a row of ten boxes, and this sheet shows a number of them filled so a reader can count the dots and write how many. Ten-frames make the numbers to ten visible as groups, which is exactly the point: eight is a row that is almost full, and that picture is what makes eight feel like eight. It is the clearest way to see the numbers that a number sheet cannot show.

Answer key

3 dots = 35 dots = 57 dots = 79 dots = 94 dots = 46 dots = 68 dots = 82 dots = 2

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Count and Write Worksheet

Groups of dots to count, with a blank beside each to write how many.

Counting and writing the number is the simplest arithmetic there is: look at a group, count it, write how many. This sheet shows several groups of dots, each with a blank beside it, and the task is the same every time — count, then write the numeral. Counting a small set accurately is the skill the whole of number work rests on, so the groups stay small. It is a counting sheet through and through.

Answer key

count 2 → write 2count 4 → write 4count 6 → write 6count 8 → write 8count 3 → write 3count 5 → write 5count 7 → write 7count 9 → write 9

Counting Circles Worksheet

Rows of circles to count, with a box at the end of each to write how many.

This counting sheet asks for the number of circles in each row, written in the box at the end. It is the same count-and-write idea as the dots sheet, but with the groups arranged in a line so the one-to-one count — pointing at each circle as it is counted — is easy to keep straight. Counting in a straight row is the gentlest version of the skill. It pairs with the dot counting sheet.

Answer key

count 1 → write 1count 3 → write 3count 5 → write 5count 7 → write 7count 2 → write 2count 4 → write 4count 6 → write 6count 8 → write 8

Blank Ten-Frame Sheet

Blank ten-frame grids, ready to be filled in to represent numbers up to ten.

A blank ten-frame sheet is the empty version of the counting ten-frames, with the boxes ready and nothing filled in. It is the sheet a reader fills themselves, drawing a dot in each box to represent a number, which is the step that makes the ten-frame a tool rather than a picture. Filling a frame to show eight, then five, shows how the numbers relate to ten at a glance. It is the ten-frame made reusable.