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🔢 1st grade math · Counting & Numbers

Ten more, ten less

10 more adds 1 to the tens digit. 10 less takes 1 from the tens digit.

Worked example

What is 10 more than 80?
Answer: 90
10 more changes the tens digit by 1 and keeps the ones. 80 → 90. Answer: 90.

For grown-ups: 10 more / 10 less mentally. Below: three problems to try with the worked answers, and a free printable sheet. Children can practise the same skill as a game, with no sign-up and no ads.

  • CCSS 1.NBT.C.5
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Practices 10 more / 10 less mentally (1.NBT.C.5). A printable sheet with its answer key, worked answers on the page, no accounts.

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Try three

  1. What is 10 more than 50?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: 60
    10 more changes the tens digit by 1 and keeps the ones. 50 → 60. Answer: 60.
  2. What is 10 more than 14?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: 24
    10 more changes the tens digit by 1 and keeps the ones. 14 → 24. Answer: 24.
  3. What is 10 more than 79?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: 89
    10 more changes the tens digit by 1 and keeps the ones. 79 → 89. Answer: 89.

Before and after

Learn first: Tens and ones (1st)

Comes next: Hundreds, tens and ones (2nd)

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Ten more, ten less (1st grade)

  1. What is 10 more than 30?
  2. What is 10 more than 80?
  3. What is 10 less than 20?
  4. What is 10 more than 50?
  5. What is 10 more than 41?
  6. What is 10 more than 56?
  7. What is 10 more than 28?
  8. What is 10 less than 106?
  9. What is 10 more than 96?
  10. What is 10 less than 99?
  11. What is 10 less than 98?
  12. What is 10 more than 92?

Answer key

  1. 40
  2. 90
  3. 10
  4. 60
  5. 51
  6. 66
  7. 38
  8. 96
  9. 106
  10. 89
  11. 88
  12. 102

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