Counting in Tens
Chickens and the clever Fox
Question: 1
In the morning, she counted her chickens.
(a) How many baskets of 10 chickens are there? ______
Answer:
5 baskets
(b) How many chickens are there in all?
50 + 4 = _______
Answer:
50 + 4 = 54
Question: 2
In the evening, she counted the chickens again.
(a) There are _________ baskets of 10 chickens.
Answer:
There are 4 baskets of 10 chickens.
(b) There are _________ + 3 = _________ chickens in all.
Answer:
There are 40 + 3 = 43 chickens in all.
(c) 54 – _____ = _______ chickens have been eaten by the fox.
Answer:
54 – 43 = 11 chickens have been eaten by the fox
How Many are These?
Bhanu collects sticks from the jungle.
He sells them in the market.
He uses 10 sticks in 1 bundle.
Question: 3
3 bundles have _______ sticks.
Answer:
3 bundles have 30 sticks
Question: 4
Now, how many sticks in all are these?
Answer:
30 + 9 = 39
Question: 5
4 bundles would have ______ sticks.
Answer:
4 bundles would have 40 sticks.
There is a wedding in Malti’s house.
She is making flower garlands.
Question: 6
So there are _______ flowers in all.
Answer:
58
Question: 7
How many flowers are these?
Answer:
67 flowers in all.
Question: 8
How many garlands of 10 flowers each can you make using 21 flowers? Draw them in the space below.
Answer:
Question: 9
Leela, can you see all these pencils? How many are these? If you make a good guess, all these will be yours!
Let us help Leela.
(a) How many packets of 10 pencils are there? ________
Answer:
6 packets
(b) How many pencils are outside the packets? ________
Answer:
4 pencils.
(c) So, altogether there are __________ pencils.
Answer:
60 + 4 = 64 pencils.
Kanak likes collecting different kinds of bindis.
Question: 10
(a) How many packets does she have? __________
Answer:
Seven
(b) So how many bindis in all?
Answer:
10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 70
70 bindis in all.