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Number Bonds to 5 and 10: Dot the Ladybird's Garden

Number Bonds to 5 and 10: Dot the Ladybird's Garden

Learn number bonds to 5 and 10, take-away facts and doubles by growing flowers, sending bunnies home and filling a ten-frame bus with Dot.

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What you'll learn

  • Every pair of parts that makes each number up to 5
  • Take-away facts within 5, such as 5 take away 2 is 3
  • Double facts from double 1 to double 5
  • Some number bonds to 10 using a ten frame
  • How a part-whole model shows two parts and a whole
  • Using a known fact to solve a small story problem

Chapter by chapter

  1. Number bonds to 5: two parts make a whole

    Reception maths · 1 Reception maths · 2

  2. Take-away facts to 5: 5 take away 2 is 3

    Reception maths · 1 Reception maths · 2

  3. Double facts: double 1 to double 5

    Reception maths · 1 Reception maths · 2

  4. Some number bonds to 10 on a ten frame

    Reception maths · 1 Reception maths · 2

  5. Using a number fact you know to solve a problem

    Reception maths · 1

  6. Number bonds star challenge (10 questions)

What the chapters cover in the national curriculum in England:

  1. Reception maths: Automatically recall (without reference to rhymes, counting or other aids) number bonds up to 5 (including subtraction facts) and some number bonds to 10, including double facts
  2. Reception maths: Automatically recall number bonds for numbers 0 to 5 and some to 10

About this adventure

Number Bonds to 5 and 10 is an interactive maths game that teaches children aged 4 to 6 to recall number bonds up to 5, take-away facts, double facts and some bonds to 10 without counting. It follows the Reception (EYFS) maths goals for England.

Dot the ladybird talks children through each step. They change flowers on a five frame to find every pair that makes 5, send bunnies into a burrow to see what is left, copy spots onto a ladybird's wing to make doubles, and fill empty seats on a bus shaped like a ten frame.

A part-whole model (a whole number at the top, two parts below) appears throughout, so children see how two parts make a whole. In practice rounds the missing part hides behind a bush or curtain, which nudges children to remember the fact instead of counting.

Questions and answers

What is a number bond, in simple words?

A number bond is a pair of numbers that make a whole number, like 3 and 2 making 5. Children often show it as a part-whole model, with the whole at the top and the two parts underneath.

What are the number bonds to 10?

The number bonds to 10 are 0 and 10, 1 and 9, 2 and 8, 3 and 7, 4 and 6, and 5 and 5, plus the same pairs swapped round. Reception children are expected to know some of these by heart.

How do number bonds help children take away?

Each number bond also gives take-away facts. If a child knows 3 and 2 make 5, they also know that 5 take away 2 is 3 and 5 take away 3 is 2, without needing to count back.

What age should children know number bonds to 5?

In England, children are expected to recall number bonds up to 5, including take-away facts and some bonds to 10, by the end of Reception, when they are about 5. This game suits ages 4 to 6.

What does the number bonds game include and how long does it take?

The game has five short chapters, an optional warm-up and a ten-question star challenge, taking about 40 minutes in all. Children can choose any chapter from the garden map and play one at a time.

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