How do you see it?
How Do You See It? printable sheet
Here are some questions.
How would you represent them using:
- pictures?
- numbers?
- objects?
Can you think of any other ways of representing them?
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Zoe had three sweets. Her friend Ranjeet gave her two more. How many sweets does Zoe have now? |
Karala had 8 teddies. She gave 3 of them to her little brother. How many teddies has Karala got now? |
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It was Toby's birthday and he had 6 birthday cards. Some more cards arrived in the post and then Toby had 9 cards. How many cards arrived in the post?
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Si had eight balloons. Some popped and he only had five left. How many popped?
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Some children were walking to school. Three more children joined them. Then there were nine children altogether. How many were walking together at the beginning? |
Marcus had some coins in his pocket. Sadly he lost seven of them and now he only has three coins. How many coins did he have before he lost some?
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Find some Lego figures and toys or objects such as counters to make sense of the problem.
We had a number of solutions sent in that provided the "answers" to the calculations. Voltaire from Ravenor Primary School in England sent in the calculations explanation as follows:
$1.5$ doing $3+2=5$, $2.5$ doing $8-3=5$ $3.3$ doing $9-6=3$,
$4.3$ doing $8-5=3$, $5.6$ doing $9-3=6$, $6.10$ doing $3+7=10$
Our first contribution to the Primary site, not in English came from Jose at the Esapana Istituto;
Esto es para dos de los problemas. Mi hermana pequeña, Anya ellos lo hicieron por mÃ. Ella tiene cinco años.
Zoe tiene 3 caramelos. Rajneeti le da dos más. 3 +2 = 5 / tres y dos son cinco
Karala tena 8 muñecas.
Ella le dio tres de ellos a su hermana pequeña. ¿Cómo ha Karala muchas muñecas tiene ahora?
As que 8-3 = 5 / ocho menos tres es igual a cinco
Which I think says:
This is for two problems. My little sister, Anya they did for me. She is five years.
Zoe has $3$ candies. Rajneeti gives you two more. $3 +2 = 5$ / three and two are
five
Kerala had $8$ dolls.
She gave three of them to his little sister. How many has Karala
dolls have now?
So $8-3 = 5$ / eight minus three is equal to five
Thank you Jose, for that. Thanks also to Voltaire
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