1st GradeMathNumber Bonds
Number Bonds to 10 Worksheet for 1st Grade
Your child's homework says "number bond" and you are not sure what it means? It is just a picture of part + part = whole. This worksheet explains it with one example, then gives 12 bonds with a missing number and a "make 10 three ways" challenge.
What your child practices
✓Part-part-whole thinking
✓Addition and subtraction facts to 10
✓Finding a missing addend
✓Ways to make 10
How to use it
- Use real objects: 7 crackers, split into two piles. That is a number bond!
- For a missing part, ask: "What goes with 3 to make 7?"
- Say the matching fact out loud: 3 + 4 = 7 and 7 − 3 = 4.
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Try this at homeHide some of 10 pennies under a cup and have your child guess how many are hiding.
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2 student pages + answer key · Print and go
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What is a number bond?
A diagram with the whole on top and its two parts below. It shows how numbers break apart and go together.
Why do schools teach this?
It builds fact families and mental math, so kids can later see 8 + 5 as 8 + 2 + 3.
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