First graders are currently working through the final section of Unit 2, focused on understanding, representing, and solving a variety of story problems types including add to/take from, put together/take apart, and compare problems. Students are investigating how to match equations to story problems and write their own equations to match story problems as the investigate the relationship between addition and subtraction. They are trying to make sense of and use equations with a symbol for the unknown, such as 10 = ___ + 6. This is meaty work!
Try asking your mathematician to solve the following problems:
(Compare) Clare has 8 pencils. Andre has 10 pencils. How many more pencils does Andre have?
How do you know?
(Put Together) Diego has 6 pens. His mother gives him some more pens. Now he has 9 pens. Howm many pens does Diego's mother give him?
How do you know?
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