Thirty and counting by tens
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Make 3 piles of 10 beans or small stones. Count them by tens. What do you say?
Ten, twenty, thirty. The child touches each pile as they say its number.
2
Write the numbers from 20 to 30 in your notebook, in order.
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, written clearly.
3
Find some things at home and sort them in two ways, for example by colour and then by size.
Any correct sorting. The child counts each group both times and finds the total is the same.
4
Look at the ten-frames. Write the number.
19 (1 ten and 9 ones)
5
Draw 8 circles. Draw 2 more circles. How many circles are there in all?
10 circles (8 + 2 = 10)