Free Interactive Ten Frame
Build numbers, make ten, model early addition and support visual number sense with a clear interactive ten frame for primary classrooms. ⭐️ Best used in full screen mode!
Teacher Notes
Curriculum Links:
This tool supports the Number strand of the Irish Primary Mathematics Curriculum, especially early work in counting, number composition, number bonds, place value foundations and operations. It is most suitable for Junior Infants – 1st Class, with useful links into early 2nd Class work.
Children can use the Ten Frame to:
build and recognise numbers to 10 and 20, subitise quantities, make 10, explore number bonds, model addition and subtraction, compare numbers, and see teen numbers as 10 and some more.
Lesson Ideas
Build the Number
Call out a number and ask children to build it on the ten frame. Encourage them to fill the top row first so they begin to see numbers as 5 and some more.
Flash and Say
Show a number briefly, then hide it. Ask children, “How many did you see?” and “How did you see it?” This supports subitising and visual number sense.
Number Bonds
Show part of a number bond on the frame. For example, show 6 counters and ask children to find the partner to make 10.
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