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Addition and Subtraction Strategies
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Addition and Subtraction Strategies
🧮 Part 1: Choose Your Strategy
1. What is 7 + 5?
11
12
13
14
2. Which strategy would be best for solving 15 - 3?
Count back 3 from 15
Count up from 3 to 15
Use doubles
Make tens
3. What is 6 + 6 + 1? (Use the doubles strategy)
12
13
14
15
4. You have 27 jellybeans. You eat 6. How many are left?
21
22
23
33
✏️ Part 2: Show Your Working
5. Solve 8 + 4 using the "make tens" strategy. Show your working:
6. At the carnival, you won 50 tickets. You spent 23 tickets on a game. How many tickets do you have left? Show two different ways to solve this:
7. Fill in the missing numbers:
a) 30 + _____ = 45
b) 42 - _____ = 20
c) _____ + 17 = 35
8. Explain how subtraction is connected to addition. Give an example:
🍎 Part 3: Real-Life Problems
9. Shopping at the dairy: Ice cream costs $25 and drinks cost $17. If you have $50, how much money will you have left after buying both items?
10. Number riddle: I am a number less than 50. If you take away 8 from me, I become 32. What number am I? Explain how you worked it out:
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