Printable Ten Frames for Your Math Toolkits!

These ten frame printable templates are an excellent resource for enhancing your students’ mathematical skills. The ten frame is a straightforward yet effective tool that can be utilized to provide a better understanding of numbers and inspire a deeper understanding of math.

Use this resource in a variety of ways in the mathematics classroom. Print the page on colored cardstock and use colored counters.

This resource can be used to reinforce:

• The understanding that 100 is made up of ten 10s
• Double-digit addition within 100
• Double-digit subtraction
• Place value up to 100

What Can You Teach With a 10 Frame?

• Teach Your Students to Subitize: Ten frames help students develop subitizing skills, which is identifying the number of items in a group without counting them individually. The filled squares on the frame make it easy to perceive the number of objects in a set.
• Practice Counting: By placing counters or manipulatives on the ten frame, students can efficiently count the occupied squares and reinforce their understanding of the correlation between numbers and objects through one-to-one correspondence.
• Compose and Decompose Numbers: Using ten frames can help students comprehend how numbers can be taken apart and put together to form larger numbers. This promotes their understanding of composing and decomposing numbers.
• Essential Addition and Subtraction: Ten frames are helpful tools for basic addition and subtraction, providing a visual model of combining and removing objects. By manipulating counters on the ten frame, students can efficiently perform addition and subtraction operations and generate mental math strategies.

Choose and Print!

There are two printable ten frame versions to choose from —one with the ten frames positioned vertically on the page, and one with the ten frames positioned horizontally. Use the drop-down menu on the download button to choose the format that best fits your needs.

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