Today in math we worked in representing addition and making a ten. The students started out by showing each added in a different color. Below you will see the representation of 9 +8.
Then we took one counter to the top tens frame to make ten. Now they can see 10+7 which they can do in their heads instead of having to count on their fingers.
Here's another example...8+8
Then we moved two counters up to show 10+6 to get 16 in our heads without having to count each counter.
