Ten Frame Math Worksheets

Pick what the counters on the frame show, press Make a new sheet, and print it with its key.

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8 problems. Count the counters, top row first, 0 to 10. Sheet CGUK45, with its answer key.

Count the counters, top row first, 0 to 10

Name Date Score / 8

Count everything in each picture and write how many there are in all.

1._____ in all.
2._____ in all.
3._____ in all.
4._____ in all.
5._____ in all.
6._____ in all.
7._____ in all.
8._____ in all.

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Answer key. Count the counters, top row first, 0 to 10

1.5 in all.
2.9 in all.
3.3 in all.
4.6 in all.
5.2 in all.
6.1 in all.
7.0 in all.
8.4 in all.

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How it works

Free ten frame math worksheets with the counters already printed in 2 rows of 5. Pick a sheet, from counting to 10 up to taking away from a teen number. Each ten frame printable comes with its answer key after it.

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What a ten frame shows

A ten frame is 2 rows of 5 squares. Fill the top row first and every number has one look: 7 is a full row and 2 more, and its 3 empty squares say 7 + 3 = 10. Every frame here is filled that way, so a 7 always looks the same.

From one frame to two

The groups run from Count the counters, 0 to 10, for pre-K and kindergarten, to Two frames: 11 to 19. The ten frame addition worksheets in the middle run dark counters on into light ones, as in Fill the first frame: 8 + 5 becomes 10 + 3, and their key prints both steps. The last group is plain facts to build with real counters.

With real counters, fill the top row first every time, so every 6 looks alike.
On Cross out from the last counter: 9 − 4, cross out as the key does, so what is left stays in rows.
Set Count the empty squares: 10 take away the day after the make 10 sheet: one frame, two sentences.

Questions and answers

What is a ten frame?

A ten frame is a rectangle of 10 squares in 2 rows of 5. Counters go one to a square, top row first, so any number up to 10 shows at a glance as filled squares and empty ones.

What grade are ten frame worksheets for?

Pre-K to grade 1. Counting to 10 suits pre-K and kindergarten, make 10 suits kindergarten, and the two-frame sheets, such as Add 9 on two frames: 9 + 6, suit grade 1.

How do you add with a ten frame?

Show the first number in one color and run the second on from it in another. The first frame fills and the rest spill onto a second frame: 8 + 5 shows as 10 and 3, which is 13.

How do you subtract with a ten frame?

Cross out from the last counter back. For 9 − 4, a full top row of 5 is left. On two frames, empty the second frame first: 14 − 6 takes 4, then 2 from the full frame, leaving 8.

All 15 sheet types

Count the counters, 0 to 10 1

Count the counters, top row first, 0 to 10 Eight frames filled along the top row first, left to right, each with a blank for how many there are in all. A full top row is 5, so 7 reads as 5 + 2 = 7 with no counting one by one. One frame may be empty, because 0 is a count too (K.CC.3).

How many more to make 10 2

Count the empty squares: 10 take away The same picture read as subtraction. A frame with 6 counters has 4 empty squares, so 10 − 6 = 4, and the pupil counts the empty squares to finish each sentence. Set it the day after the make 10 sheet so both sentences for one frame sit side by side.
Make 10: finish the number sentence for the frame A frame with some counters and a sentence such as 6 + ___ = 10 under it. For 6 counters the pupil counts 4 empty squares and writes 4, so 6 + 4 = 10. The empty squares are the answer, so nothing has to be worked out, only seen (K.OA.4).

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Addition on ten frames 5

A frame plus a numeral: count on from the frame Only the first number is drawn: a frame of 6 with 6 + 3 = ___ under it. The pupil starts from the 6 on the frame and counts on 7, 8, 9, so 6 + 3 = 9. It is the step between adding pictures and adding bare numbers.
Add 7 or 8 on two frames: 7 + 5 A first number of 8 or 7 leaves 2 or 3 empty squares on the first frame, and light counters fill them: 7 + 5 = 10 + 2 = 12. The split of the 5 into 3 and 2 is there to see in the two colors, and the answer key prints it as two steps.
Add 9 on two frames: 9 + 6 The first number is always 9, so exactly 1 light counter finishes the first frame every time: 9 + 6 = 10 + 5 = 15. The second number runs from 2 to 9 and no fact prints twice on a sheet. The answer key prints both steps.
Fill the first frame: 8 + 5 becomes 10 + 3 The 8 dark counters and 5 light ones run on from one frame into the next, so 2 light counters finish the first frame and 3 sit on the second: 8 + 5 = 10 + 3 = 13. The pupil writes the sum and the answer key prints both steps. The Common Core names this strategy making ten (1.OA.6). First numbers run 6 to 9.
How many were added? 6 + ___ = 9 The frame shows 9 counters, 6 dark and the rest light, above a sentence with the second addend missing. The light counters are the answer: 6 + 3 = 9. Pupils who find a missing addend hard in bare numbers can put a finger on this one.

Subtraction on ten frames 2

Cross out from the last counter: 9 − 4 A frame of 9 with 9 − 4 = ___ under it. The pupil crosses out 4 counters and writes what is left. The answer key crosses out from the last counter back, so the 5 left still sit as a full top row: 9 − 4 = 5. Ask pupils to cross out the same way.
Teen take away: empty the second frame first, 14 − 6 Two frames show 14. The pupil crosses out the 4 on the second frame, then 2 more from the full one: 14 − 6 = 14 − 4 − 2 = 10 − 2 = 8. The answer key prints both steps. The Common Core names this decomposing a number leading to a ten (1.OA.6).

Two frames: 11 to 19 2

Add to a teen number, no new ten: 13 + 4 Two frames show 13 dark counters with 4 light ones after them on the second frame: 13 + 4 = 17. The full frame never changes, so the real work is 3 + 4 = 7. Every sum stops at 19 or less, so the second frame never overflows.
Two frames, 11 to 19: a full frame and some more A full frame of dark counters and a part-filled frame of light ones. The pupil writes both parts and the total: 10 + 7 = 17. The Common Core's kindergarten example is 18 = 10 + 8 (K.NBT.1). The ones digit of every teen number is simply what sits on the second frame.

Plain fact sheets to build with counters 3

Plain facts for two frames: addition within 20 Twelve addition facts with sums from 2 to 20, such as 8 + 7 = 15, and no frames printed. Pupils build both numbers with counters on two frames of their own and read the answer off as a full frame and some more.
Plain facts to build on a frame: addition within 10 No frames are printed on this one: 20 addition facts with sums to 10, such as 4 + 5 = 9, written across with an answer line. Hand it out with a blank frame and counters, and have pupils build each fact before they write the sum.
Plain facts to build on a frame: subtraction within 10 Twenty subtraction facts that start from 10 or less, such as 9 − 3 = 6, with no pictures. Pupils build the first number on a blank frame, take counters off from the end and write what is left. No answer on the sheet is 0.

How this list was compiled: Own work. Each sheet type says what the frame shows and what the pupil does with it, and every worked example was checked twice by script, the last time on 2026-09-20. On the same day 150 built sheets of every frame sheet were read by script: no fact repeats on a sheet. Number ranges, quoted examples and standards codes were read in the full texts on 2026-09-19: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (California Department of Education copy), https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/ccssmathstandardaug2013.pdf, and Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, 19 TAC chapter 111 subchapter A, https://tea.texas.gov/sites/default/files/ch111a.pdf. Neither text names the ten frame, so a code marks the skill a sheet practices and never the frame itself. Licence: own work