Your Kid’s Math Homework · Chapter 3

Number Bonds and Make-a-Ten

Fill up to ten first: 8 + 5 is 8 + 2 + 3, which is 10 + 3. The ten frame shows why, and the number bond shows how 5 was split.

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Opens on Chapter 3’s example: 8 + 5, made into 10 + 3.

Bonds of one number
Enter the numbers from the worksheet, then press Show me.
From the book, Chapter 3. 8 + 5: the 8 needs 2 more to make ten, so the 5 splits into 2 and 3, and 10 + 3 = 13. The same move makes 9 + 7 into 10 + 6. In England, “number bonds” usually means the facts themselves; the circle diagram is called the part-whole or cherry model.

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