10-Box

The 10-Box can be used to teach and reinforce the sequence of numbers by building a staircase from 1 to 10. This tool can also be used to teach addition, subtraction and problem solving within 10. Additionally, students use the 10-box to practice their combinations of 10 through activities and games.

Learning the Combinations that Make 10- Finding Missing Addends

Students learn to find the missing addend in combinations of 10. The teacher places a block in the 10-box and asks the child to find the block that goes with it to be as big as 10.

From Experimenting with Numbers.

 

Recording Addition Facts

In this workbook page, children are asked to write the missing addend in the blanks. They draw on their knowledge of the blocks which went together in the 10-box.

From Structural Arithmetic Book I.