A Ten Is Ten Ones
Your child knows that ten single things can be grouped into one 'ten'. Ten ones and one ten are the same amount.
In curriculum terms
Understand that 10 can be thought of as a bundle of ten ones — called a 'ten'
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
Can your child explain that ten single objects bundled together make 'one ten' — and that this is why we write 10 with a 1 in the tens place and a 0 in the ones place?
Where this sits on the map
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 ACARA · 2 NSW · 1 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
partition one- and two-digit numbers in different ways using physical and virtual materials, including partitioning two-digit numbers into tens and ones
recognise, represent and order natural numbers using naming and writing conventions for numerals beyond 10 000
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.