What goes with 5 to make 10

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The question

Question: what goes with 5 to make 10?

In numbers: 5 plus what number is 10?

The box is the number we want.

1 Show 5

A ten frame has 10 boxes.

2 Fill the empty boxes

How many boxes are empty?

We fill them with blue dots.

We count them.

3 Write the number

5 blue dots fill the frame.

So 5 and 5 make 10.

4 Check

We count all the dots.

We start at 5 and count on.

6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

Yes!

It works.

Let's look back.

First: show 5.

Then: fill the empty boxes.

Then: write the number.

Last: check.