Toadstool Mystery Picture: Adding & subtracting to 10

A toadstool with a red cap full of white spots on a pale stem. The spots are the cells left uncolored, so the pattern appears by itself as the cap fills in.

Every number stays at 10 or below, with problems such as 4 + 5, 10 − 3 or 2 + 6. That covers the facts children need to know by heart before anything bigger: number bonds to 10 (7 + 3, 6 + 4), adding and taking away 1 or 2, and simple subtraction from 10. Because each answer is also a row number, the child has to read the result carefully and find the matching line, which quietly reinforces number order.