KP^® Ten-Frame Tiles provide students with hands-on opportunities to explore and understand how base-ten numbers work. This unique manipulative promotes new ways of learning as students group and ungroup, nest and un-nest tiles to create ever larger and ever smaller powers of ten. Over time, students who engage with KP® Ten-Frame Tiles develop new ways of thinking about numbers, place value, and operations.

Jon wants to give his mom 10 roses, but he doesn’t have enough. How many more does he need to make 10?

Standards: K.OA.A.3, K.OA.A.4, 1.OA.C.6

Students use KP^® Ten-Frame Tiles and number bonds to explore different ways to find number pairs that add to ten.

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“Finding the Number That
Makes 10: Hands-On"

Zin is playing marbles with his friends. Sometimes he wins, and sometimes he loses.
How do his wins and losses show a connection between addition and subtraction?

Standards: 1.OA, 2.OA, 3.OA, 1.NBT, 2.NBT, 3.NBT

Students use KP^® Ten-Frame Tiles and number bonds to connect addition and subtraction in a variety of contexts.

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“Connecting Addition and Subtraction: Hands-On"

Why is it that when you multiply tenths times tenths, you get a product in the hundredths?

Standards: 5.NBT.B.7; 6.NS.B.3

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Students use KP^® Ten-Frame Tiles, language, and equations to help them understand the concept of finding fractions of fractions in a decimal context.

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“Multiplying Decimals: Tenths Times Tenths"