Tens and Ones Worksheet: Counting Fruits and Matching Numbers!
Counting groups of fruit and organizing them into tens and ones builds early place value understanding for children ages 4-6, a foundational concept for reading and writing two-digit numbers correctly.
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Month 12: Learning & Development | Ages 6-7
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Curriculum
- Number Recognition > Number Names
How to use this worksheet
Count the fruits in the first group together, grouping them into sets of ten where possible. Help your child fill in the blank showing how many tens and how many ones make up the total. Match that number to its correct written representation, then repeat the process for each remaining group of fruits on the page.
Materials needed
- Pencil
- Eraser
Extension activities
- 1Have the child draw their own groups of objects and write the tens and ones.
- 2Use manipulatives like blocks or beads bundled in tens to represent the numbers.
- 3Count a stack of coins, separating out groups of ten pennies to make the concept concrete.
- 4Play a place value game, calling out a number and having your child build it with tens and ones blocks.
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.
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