These number bonds kindergarten worksheets give children something to count: dots, cube trains, five frames or ten frames. Each sheet opens with 6 large bonds and wholes no bigger than 10. 16 sheets use pictures and 1 uses numerals only.
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Which kindergarten number bonds sheet comes first
Start with Dots with numerals to trace. Nothing is missing, so the job is to read the picture: 2 lines join the whole to its parts. Then print Dots in both parts, wholes to 5, which is 6 pairs and exactly one page. Last comes Numerals only, wholes to 5: the same 6 pairs with the pictures taken away.
Dots, cube trains and frames show different things
Dots show each part as its own group. A cube train shows the whole as one thing that breaks in 2, so Break the train: color your own can ask for 2 different pairs for the same whole. A frame shows what is missing: in Fill the ten frame to make 10, the empty squares are the other part.
Build each bond with real cubes or counters first. The cube train sheets match a train a child can hold.
Dice patterns in both parts uses the faces children know from board games, so parts can be read, not counted.
Zero as a part, with dots needs saying aloud: a circle with no dots is still a part, 0.
Questions and answers
When is a child ready for number bonds without pictures?
When Half dots, half numerals is easy. One part is dots and the other a numeral, so the quick way is to count on from the numeral: from 4, say 5, 6, 7. It is the step between counting every dot and knowing the fact.
Which kindergarten number bonds worksheets fit the Common Core?
All 17 stay inside the kindergarten range. Common Core kindergarten splits numbers up to 10 into pairs in more than one way (K.OA.3), finds the number that makes 10 for any number from 1 to 9 (K.OA.4) and adds fluently within 5 (K.OA.5).
Why do the dots sit in rows and not scattered?
So a part bigger than 5 can be seen as 5 and some more: 8 is a row of 5 over a row of 3. Common Core kindergarten counts up to 10 scattered things, but up to 20 in a line or array (K.CC.5).
All 17 kindergarten sheets
Dots to count 5
Dice patterns in both partsEach part is the face of a die, 1 to 6 dots in the pattern a real die uses, so a part can be read without counting. 19 pairs with wholes up to 10. Texas asks kindergarten to recognize small groups in organized arrangements instantly (K.2(D)).
Dots in both parts, wholes 6 to 10Parts up to 9 are drawn in rows of no more than 5 dots, never scattered, so 7 is a row of 5 over a row of 2. Common Core kindergarten counts as many as 10 scattered things, but up to 20 in a line or an array (K.CC.5). 19 pairs.
Dots in both parts, wholes to 5Each part circle holds dots to count and the top circle is empty for the numeral. Wholes 2 to 5 without a zero give 6 pairs, exactly one page: 1 and 1, 1 and 2, 1 and 3, 2 and 2, 1 and 4, 2 and 3.
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Dots to count, continued
Draw the missing dots, wholes 6 to 10The empty circle has room for 9 dots. Count on from the dots you can see, drawing one dot for each number you say, and stop at the whole: with 6 showing under 9, draw as you say 7, 8, 9. 6 + 3 = 9.
Draw the missing dots, wholes to 5The whole is a numeral, one part shows its dots and the other circle is empty. The pupil draws the missing dots, then counts them all to check the whole. Drawings are one of the ways Common Core kindergarten represents addition (K.OA.1).
Cube trains 3
Break the train: color your ownThe train is all white and the whole is printed. The pupil colors some cubes and writes the 2 parts. Each whole appears twice, to be broken 2 different ways, as in 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1 (K.OA.3). Wholes start at 4, the smallest number with 2 pairs when zero is left out. The key lists every pair.
Cube train in two colors, wholes 6 to 10Trains of 6 to 10 cubes with a small gap after the 5th cube, so a long train is counted as 5 and some more: 8 is 5 and 3. 19 pairs.
Cube train in two colors, wholes to 5A train of joined cubes, some shaded and the rest white, sits above an empty bond. The pupil counts each kind into a part circle and the whole train into the top circle. Shaded and white come out clearly on a black and white printer.
Five frames and ten frames 3
Fill the ten frame to make 10A frame of 2 rows of 5 squares holds 1 to 9 counters. The pupil draws a counter in each empty square, counts what was drawn and writes it in the empty part circle. It is the kindergarten standard as written: for any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 (K.OA.4).
Five frame: counters and empty squaresOne row of 5 squares, some holding a counter. The pupil writes the counters in one part, the empty squares in the other and 5 on top. The 6 frames, from empty to full, fill the page exactly. Within 5 is the range Common Core kindergarten makes fluent (K.OA.5).
Two kinds of counter on a ten frame6 to 10 counters on a ten frame, some shaded and the rest open, with any unused squares left empty. The pupil writes each kind in a part circle and the total on top. Shaded counters always come first, so 7 shaded is a full row and 2. 19 pairs.
From pictures to numerals 4
Dots with numerals to traceNothing is missing. Every circle holds its dots and a dotted numeral to trace, so the first sheet is about reading the picture: 2 lines join the whole to its parts. Writing the numerals is a kindergarten standard of its own (K.CC.3).
Half dots, half numeralsOne part is dots, the other is a numeral and the whole is missing. The quick way is to start from the numeral and count on through the dots: from 4, say 5, 6, 7. 4 + 3 = 7. It is the step between counting every dot and knowing the fact.
Numerals only, wholes to 5No pictures: the same 6 pairs as the first dots sheet, written as numerals with one part missing. Print the two together and the pupil can check each answer on the dots.
Zero as a part, with dotsOne part circle has no dots at all, because that part is 0: 3 + 0 = 3. Common Core kindergarten writes 0 for a count of no objects (K.CC.3). 5 pairs, wholes 1 to 5. Where the 0 is the missing number, the pupil writes a 0 rather than leaving a gap.
Picture mixes 2
Kindergarten picture mix, wholes to 52 bonds each of dots, cube trains and five frames on one page, all with wholes up to 5: 7 different pairs. The same 1 and 4 looks different in each picture, which is the point of mixing them.
Kindergarten picture mix, wholes to 102 bonds each of dots in rows, cube trains and ten frames, wholes 6 to 10: 19 different pairs. A page for the end of kindergarten, when the Common Core expects numbers up to 10 to be split into pairs in more than one way (K.OA.3).