Try this FREE interactive ten-frame activity, designed to help children develop confidence with counting, number recognition and understanding quantity.

This free sample focuses on numbers 0–3 using familiar, standard ten-frame representations. It gives you the opportunity to try the interactive features before purchasing the full 0–10 resource.

Children can click each counter as they count. As a counter is selected, it highlights and displays its counting number, helping children understand that each counter represents one more in the counting sequence. Children can then decide how many counters are represented before clicking Review the number to check their answer.

A Reset button allows the activity to be repeated easily.

The FREE version includes:

Numbers 0, 1, 2 and 3
Standard ten-frame representations
Interactive clickable counters
Numbers appearing on counters as they are selected
Review the number answer reveal
Reset and try again functionality
Clear, child-friendly presentation
Suitable for EYFS, Year 1, KS1 and intervention/SEND support

This activity can be used for whole-class teaching on an interactive whiteboard, small-group maths work, interventions or individual practice.

Want more?

If you enjoy the free version, the full resource extends the activity through numbers 0–10 and then introduces more challenging ten-frame arrangements with gaps, encouraging children to recognise quantities when counters are no longer presented in the familiar standard pattern.

Please note: This is a macro-enabled PowerPoint (.pptm). Download and open the resource in the desktop version of Microsoft PowerPoint and enable macros for the interactive features to work correctly.