What goes with 7 to make 10

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Question: what goes with 7 to make 10?

In numbers: 7 plus what number is 10?

The box is the number we want.

1 Show 7

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

3 blue dots fill the frame.

So 7 and 3 make 10.

4 Check

We count all the dots.

We start at 7 and count on.

8, 9, 10.

Yes!

It works.

Let's look back.

First: show 7.

Then: fill the empty boxes.

Then: write the number.

Last: check.