Hello Nine. What’s the matter? One smaller. I always get one smaller. Every time I sneeze, I get one smaller. See! Why can’t I ever get one bigger? Maybe you can. Stand tall. Nine, plus one ...

We can use 10 frames, like this. Or we can draw on ‘known number facts’. That means that you’ve done so much work on your number bonds to 10 that you just know them. Here is the number 8.