➕ 1st Grade Math · Unit 4

Adding and Subtracting Tens

13 short narrated lessons in 3 chapters, each with pictures, a quiz with a hint and a second try, and an explanation for every answer.

Standards: 1.NBT.C.5 1.NBT.C.4 1.NBT.C.6

Picture from the lesson “Ten More!”
Ten More!
Picture from the lesson “Ten Less!”
Ten Less!
Picture from the lesson “Tens on the Hundred Chart”
Tens on the Hundred Chart

What your child will learn

Ten more and ten less

  1. Ten More!Find 10 more than a two-digit number in your head.
  2. Ten Less!Find 10 less than a two-digit number in your head.
  3. Tens on the Hundred ChartUse a hundred chart to find 10 more and 10 less by moving down and up.
  4. Ten More and Ten Less Review ReviewReview finding 10 more and 10 less than a number.

Adding within 100

  1. Adding TensAdd multiples of ten like 30 plus 40 using tens.
  2. Adding Tens to a NumberAdd a multiple of ten to a two-digit number, like 34 plus 20.
  3. Adding Ones to a NumberAdd a one-digit number to a two-digit number, like 43 plus 5.
  4. Making a New TenAdd numbers like 27 plus 6 and make a new ten when the ones add up to ten or more.
  5. Adding Within 100 Review ReviewReview adding tens and ones within 100.

Subtracting tens

  1. Subtracting TensSubtract multiples of ten like 70 minus 30 using tens.
  2. Subtracting Tens on a ChartUse a hundred chart to subtract tens from multiples of ten.
  3. Explaining Your ThinkingExplain how you used tens to solve a subtraction problem.
  4. Subtracting Tens Review ReviewReview subtracting multiples of ten.

Try a question from this unit

From the lesson “Ten More!”

Blocks for 34, three tens and four ones, a plus sign, and one more ten stick labeled 10 more.

What is ten more than 34?

  • [object Object]
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Show the answer

[object Object]. One more ten turns 3 tens into 4 tens, so it is 44.

Hint kids see after a wrong try: “Make the tens digit one bigger and keep the ones.”

Key words

  • ten more
  • ten less
  • hundred chart
  • tens
  • add
  • ones
  • new ten
  • subtract
  • chart
  • explain

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