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Introduction
Encourage children to make up a story for the number sentence below.
Possible student responses
- I had 5 cookies, I ate 2 f them and now I have 3 cookies left.
- Jan’s sister is 5 years old and her brother is 2 years old. Her sister is three years older than her brother.