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Abacus · Ages 5+ · Set A
Taking from ten
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Remember: Ten is made of two parts. Take one part away and the other part stays.

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Mia's braceletA row has ten beads across. Mia wants five beads. Pip slides five beads back. Five beads stay across. Ten is made of five and five.
1
How many beads does Mia want?
🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵Ten🔵🔵🔵🔵Four🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵Five
2
Pip slides five beads back.
TrueFalse
3
How many beads stay across?
🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵Five🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵Ten🔵🔵🔵🔵Four

Slide beads back

4
Ten beads are across. Take three away. How many stay?
🔵🔵🔵Three🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵Seven🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵Eight
5
Which frame shows ten take away four?
🐶
A🐱
B🐸
C
6
10 − 2 =
7
Ten take away nine leaves one.
TrueFalse
8
Join each sum to what it leaves.
  1. 110 − 1
  2. 210 − 4
  3. 310 − 6
  • A4
  • B6
  • C9

Think and do

9
Mia has ten fingers up. Six fold down. How many stay up?
👆👆👆👆👆👆Six👆👆👆👆Four👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆Ten
10
Seventeen take away four. Which frame is the answer?
🐶
A🐱
B🐸
C
11
To take four from seventeen, slide the ten back.
TrueFalse
12
Number the steps.
  • Mia wants five beads
  • Ten beads are across
  • Five beads stay across
  • Pip slides five beads back
13
Draw ten beads across. Cross out four.
14
Trace it.
10 − 5 = 5
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Answer key · Set A
Taking from ten
1Five Mia wants five beads for her bracelet.
2True Pip takes five beads away from the ten.
3Five Ten is five and five. Take one part away and the other part stays.
4Seven Ten beads, and three slide back, leaves seven beads across.
5B Ten beads, and four slide back, leaves six beads across.
68 Two beads slide back, so eight beads stay across.
7True Nine beads slide back, so only one bead stays across.
81-C, 2-B, 3-A Ten is made of two parts. Take one part away and the other part stays.
9Four Ten fingers, and six fold down, leaves four fingers up.
10B Slide four ones back from the bottom row. The ten stays. One ten and three ones is 13.
11False Slide ones back from the bottom row. The ten stays where it is.
122, 1, 4, 3 Take the five away, and five stay.
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