Lesson 4-3

LET'S BUILD Represent Addition as Putting Together

For more help with this lesson, view the Visual Learning Animation or the Another Look Video.

MATH HELP AT HOME

Sample Additional Practice Exercise 1

Write the numbers to tell how many of each and then write an addition sentence to tell how many in all.

Two connecting cubes and 4 counters. Written underneath is 2 and 4 is 6.

There are 2 cubes and 4 counters. Count on or count all to find there are 6 in all, so 2 and 4 is 6.

HOME ACTIVITY

Number Stories

MATERIALS

Paper, Pencil

ACTIVITY

Take turns choosing a problem on this page and making up a number story about it. One person tells the story, and the other person writes the complete addition sentence. For example, 1 and 4 is 5.