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With practice, children will learn all the possible number bonds for all numbers up to 10. This will allow kids to strengthen their number sense as they pull numbers apart (decompose) and put them together (compose) with increased accuracy and speed. Lots of hands on, concrete (using real objects) and pictorial (using drawings) practice with this skill leads to automaticity. This is when kids can look and know the total or missing part without needing to stop to use strategies to figure it out.