BFF Make Ten: Where Fluency Comes From Thinking

Transforming math facts into true number understanding through flexible, evidence-based routines.

The kit bridges concrete models, visual representations, and equations, helping students see how numbers break apart and come together.

Best of all, BFF Make Ten adapts to your schedule:

BFF Make Ten is a flexible intervention kit designed to help students develop deep understanding of addition and subtraction within 10.

Using Math Empowered’s Core Four instructional routines, students experience mathematics through:

  • Math Talks that spark noticing and reasoning

  • Randomizers & Sorts that build conceptual connections

  • DARE-ing application problems that develop problem solving

  • Thinking Pathways games that reinforce strategies through play