Diving Into Mastery – Diving Add Ones Using Number Bonds
Adult Guidance with Question Prompts
Complete the addition calculations.
Add Ones Using Number Bonds
Provide children with ten-frames and counters to support their
addition, using these to identify known number bonds rather than
counting on.
What numbers are represented by the two ten-frames?
12 + 4 =
How many tens/ones are in 12?
How do the ten-frames show this?
What is 2 + 4? How can this help us solve 12 + 4?
How many tens are there in total? How many ones?
What is 12 + 4? How do you know?
What number bond can help you solve 15 + 3?
What is 5 + 3?
How many tens are there in 15 + 3? How many ones? 15 + 3 =
What is the total? Prove it.
How will you solve ____? What number bond can help you?
Can you show ___ on your ten-frames?
What is the total? How do you know?
Stem Sentences
Use your own ten-frames and
counters to solve these calculations.
• ___ and ___ is a number bond of ___.
• There are ___ tens and ___ ones, so the total is ___. 11 + 7 = 13 + 4 =
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Diving Into Mastery – Deeper Add Ones Using Number Bonds
Adult Guidance with Question Prompts
Use your knowledge of number bonds to
Add Ones Using Number Bonds
explain Amber’s mistake.
Children may use practical equipment such as ten-frames or base ten
to help them to explain their reasoning. 13 + 3 = 17
What number bonds could Amber have used to help add the two
numbers together?
How can you tell she has made a mistake? Amber
What is 3 + 3?
How many tens will the total have? How many ones? What is the correct answer? Prove it.
Use equipment to prove it.
What is 13 + 3? How do you know? Is Joshua’s statement true or false?
What number bonds will help you add 12 + 6 and 15 + 3?
What do you notice?
12 + 6 = 15 + 3
What are the two totals? Why?
Is the statement true or false?
Can you use equipment to explain how you know? Joshua
Stem Sentences
Can you use equipment to
• ___ and ___ is a number bond of ___.
explain how you know?
• There are ___ tens and ___ ones, so the total is ___.
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Diving Into Mastery – Deepest Add Ones Using Number Bonds
Adult Guidance with Question Prompts
Sol is using digit cards to create number
Add Ones Using Number Bonds sentences.
Children may wish to refer to practical equipment such as ten-frames
or base ten. However, they should be using these to identify number
bonds rather than counting on. 1 + = 1 9
What can you tell me about the two missing digit cards?
How do you know they must have a total of 9?
What number bonds of 9 do you know?
Can you use equipment to
Can you prove that the number sentence adds up to 19? explain how you know?
Can you work systematically to find all the possible answers?
What number is represented by the base ten?
Meg uses base ten equipment to add a 2-digit
number and a 1-digit number. Here is her total.
How many tens/ones does 16 have?
What number bonds could help you solve this problem?
What numbers could Meg have added together?
Can you prove they have a total of 16?
How will you find all the possible answers?
Meg
Stem Sentences
• ___ and ___ is a number bond of ___.
What addition calculations
• There are ___ tens and ___ ones, so the total is ___.
could Meg be representing?
Find all the possibilities.
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