Grade 1 Fact Families and Make Ten Worksheet

About this worksheet

First graders are expected to use properties of addition even before they know those formal names. They learn that 3 + 6 gives the same total as 6 + 3, and that three addends can be grouped in a helpful order. These ideas matter because they make facts easier to remember and prepare children for later mental math. This worksheet focuses on related facts, turn-around facts, and make-ten groupings. The questions ask children to complete a matching fact, choose a helpful pair, or decide which equation belongs to the same family. Support pages use totals to ten. Standard and challenge pages use teen totals while keeping the reasoning visible. Encourage children to explain what stayed the same: the parts, the whole, or the total. That explanation keeps the work from becoming a pattern copied without understanding.