Homework Help - 10 Partners

Has your child come home with some homework and there wasn't an explanation about how to do it?

Annabelle had her first actual math page for homework this week.
This page was pretty self explanatory, however I know more complicated things are coming. 
They aren't actually complicated, they just call things and do them differently than when I was in school.
Thank goodness I had two years of first grade math over the past two years ;)  I was able to be in my friend Colleen's class and actually am very thankful for seeing how math is taught these days.

Anyway, this post is about 10 Partners.  It can be adapted for any partner that you child is working on.  I think when we were in school we called them Turn Around Facts.

First find some bottle tops.  You will need 10 of them.

 

 Look for some stickers.  You need 20 total - 10 of each color/style.  Stick one color on the inside of the bottle tops and the other color on the outside.

 

 

I had Annabelle put them in a cup and then spill them out. 

 

Then separate the pinks from the blues.

 

In this example you have 7 pinks and 3 blues

So the break apart stick would go after the 7 on their math pages.

Once they write

7   +   3

They can write the partner

3   +   7

I had Annabelle dump them onto a tray so we could easily turn the tray upside down and see the partner.

Same thing here

6  +  4

4  +  6

On the math page the y will probably ask them to draw a break apart stick.  You could do this by lining up the bottle tops and then put a toothpick or spoon or anything you have after 4 circles.

 

I like this method for practicing Partners at home because it is very visual.  The kids see that they have 2 blue caps and 8 pink caps.  They know that they have 10 caps total so 2 and 8 equal 10.

 

I just keep the bottle caps in a baggy and will pull them out for a little practice sometimes or when she has a homework page that deals with partners.