Number bonds to 20: counting worksheets and number bonds for kindergarten

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This Missing Number Bonds of 20 Jigsaw Worksheet challenges children to work out what the missing numbers are. Children are asked to find the missing number bond or to think of different number bonds to make 20. Great for independent learning. Examples of number bonds of 10 include: 1 & 9, 7 & 3 and 5 & 5. How can you teach number bonds of 10 to your class? You might want to pair this lovely resource with this number bonds to 20 activity booklet for more maths fun! A number bond is a pair of numbers that add up to a given total. In this category, you will find an abundance of resources that show number bonds to 20 Number bonds let students split numbers in useful ways. They show how numbers join together, and how they break down into component parts. The aim of number bonds is to be so familiar that a child can recognise it and complete it almost instantly, with recall as automatic as that of an entry from a multiplication table in multiplication.

For example if we remember that 10 + 10 = 20, then we can increase the first number by 1 and decrease the second number by 1 to get another number bonds to 20. We get 11 + 9. We can continue to increase one number and decrease the other to get 12 + 8 and so on. Number bonds help children to understand how numbers work - that a number can be made up of parts, and the sum of the parts is the whole. Number bonds are also a good introduction to the fact that subtraction is the inverse of addition - A child learning that 4 add 6 equals 10 is also learning that 10 minus 6 is 4 and that 10 minus 4 is 6. To learn the number bonds to 20, learn the number bonds to ten and add a 10 to one of the numbers in the pair.

What is a number bond?

Number bonds like times tables are something which a child should know instantly without needing to think - therefore lots of practice by play and worksheets are essential to memorise these number relationships.

This Numicon Shapes Number Bonds of 20 PowerPoint, for example, is the perfect introductory activity for kids who are just getting started with number bonds. In this resource, kids will learn all of the number bonds to 20 as each slide gives a number and its matching Numicon Shape. Numicon shapes are a great way of helping kids to visualise the number bond. In addition to being a great introduction, this PowerPoint is an amazing recap activity to use at the end of lessons.

What will my child gain from this Number Bonds Challenge?

This handy number bonds booklet will keep children engaged as they develop their number bonds recall and calculations. If you found this Number Bonds of 20 activity booklet useful, then please take a look at our other School Closure Maths Workbooks. What are number bonds? The workbook contains 20 worksheets/activities (concrete, pictorial and abstract) linked to the White Rose small steps with an emphasis on the mastery approach to learning advocated by the White Rose scheme and includes reasoning and problem-solving tasks. The workbooks are available in both PDF and word format to enable editing and personalisation of the workbook.