What is the best way to teach number bonds?

[Plonker]

Dd is learning number bonds.

We have been asked to re-inforce this at home, so, what is the best/easiest way to teach number bonds? She is 5 yo and in Y1.

What worked with your dc? Or, for any teachers around, how do they teach number bonds in class?

TIA

I taught my DD by having 10 objects and I took a few away(for example 6) without her seeing and if she could work out how many I had taken by using the ones remaining(4) She won.

I also used to ask them this sort of question "what number goes with 7 to make 10?" whilst we were out and about.

The easiest way is with their fingers because they have 10 of those already

We also printed a sheet with all the number bonds on and just had it on display so she could read it whenever she wanted.

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Mine just learnt them by rote.

We did 1+9 and 2+8 on night 1.

Then night 2 we did 3+7, 4&6 and 5+5.

Night 3 we did both the above

night 4 we did the "opposites - i.e. 6+4, 7+3....

It stuck like that.

I used finger puppets - cut the corners off envelopes & put the numbers & a face on each one & played pairing games with them

Great ideas, thanks

love the row row row your boat song!

Best idea I heard was clothes pegs on a coat hanger so you can start with 10 on one side with a marker in the middle and move them across one by one, helps fine motor skill as well, very clever whoever thought of it.

Ping pong.. assming she knows them but need to practice recall

you say ping; she replies pong
pong- replies ping
ping ping- replies pong pong
you say 4 she says 6
pong pong she says ping ping
etc etc- needs to be played various fast!

Play pairs with little number cards 0-10. Turn over tow cards, if they add to 10 it's a pair

Forgot to update:

Orinoco - i taught my little dd your song and she had learned her number bonds in the space of 20 minutes!! Ingenious!! ...thank you

Yey, I'm glad it worked (o r i n o c o in disguise after someone in rl discovered my name )

I hope you are not forgetting 0 + 10 and 10 + 0.

It worked fabulously - thank you!! I couldn't believe how quickly it worked ...now you have to make me a song for number bonds to 20

WTH - nope, not forgotten - she knows those ones too

What was the first line of the row row row song? I've forgotten. 1 and 9 are ?????

Make a set of "snap" cards where you snap on the number bonds.

Curious about the song though

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to the tune of Row Row Row your boat

9 and 1 are number bonds
8 and 2 are friends
7 and 2
6 and 4
5 and 5 are twins.

Of course, that should be 7 and 3

Ruby, I've not got one for 20, we'll have to work on that.

Thanks. I wanted to try it with my special group yesterday and had totally forgotten the first line!

10 beads/pasta tubes on a necklace of string seems to have worked well, helps them to identify the pattern for themselves.

Like the song, great idea!

What about an old fashioned abacus, you could make patterns out of the number bonds.