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Math · Stage 1

Number story makers: tell, draw and ask

Make up and tell number stories: turn a number sentence into a story and picture, ask a maths question about a picture, and retell my own maths story.

✦ Math📘 Stage 1 · S1⏱ ~9 min🧒 Ages 5–6★ Free to start
make up and tell number stories: turn a number sentence into a story and picture, ask a maths question about a picture, and retell my own maths story
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Ayu and the plate of rambutans

Ayu sits at the warung with a plate of 9 rambutans. Ayu eats 4 of them. Now 5 are left. Ayu wonders, how can I turn this plate into a little story with numbers? She sees stories with numbers at the market, on the bus and at school. By the end I can make up a short story with numbers, ask a question about a picture, and tell my own maths story.

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What your child will learn

1Warm-up: start, change and result
2Two new words: number sentence and number story
3Three panels tell a number story
4Sort action words: take away or add
5Ask a maths question about the warung
6Good questions and questions the picture cannot answer
7Build a story for 5 + 3
8Does the story match? Test and repair
9Order the comic and say the maths
10Turn a story into a word problem
11Is my answer sensible?
12Two-step word problems
13Estimate with near numbers
14Three-step stories
15Read a friend's comic
16Clinic: four wrong ideas and their fixes
17Check your thinking
18Hands-on: make a three-panel number story
19Can-do: I can make and tell number stories
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A peek inside

Ayu has 9 rambutans and eats 4. Tell the story in three panels and write the sentence.
Panel 1 start: Ayu has 9 rambutans on a plate.<br>Panel 2 change: Ayu eats 4, so 4 go away.<br>Panel 3 result: 5 rambutans are left.<br>The number sentence is 9 - 4 = 5.

Try this at home: Ayu has 9 rambutans and eats 4. Tell the story in three panels and write the sentence.

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