A full ten is ten objects

Make a reliable tens-and-ones label. 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: Card sleeves, Paper badges, Reusable score marks. 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 a child says five for three strips plus two, open one strip, touch its ten marks and label the object value. Then use a new two-strip model before returning to three strips. 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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