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These six animal Friends of Ten worksheets reinforce children's Friends of Ten knowledge. The sheets vary in difficulty supporting differentiation in the class. Children need to develop automatic recall of the different ways to add up to ten to support future learning, such as understanding place value and bridging to ten. Opportunities to develop and revise Friends of Ten knowledge is a basic mathematics building block.

Blocks on a bowl activity sheets can become eggs on a bowl. Start with 10 eggs on top and in groups of 2 or 3, children take turns hiding some eggs under the bowl while the others close their eyes. Children then count how many eggs are left on top and work out how many are hidden underneath. They draw the eggs left on top and the number underneath and write the Friends of 10 addition sentence. Sheets are provided for Friends of 5 and Friends of .... (whatever number the teacher decides). Great