Introduction

Display the Headline Story pictured in the sidebar or copy it onto the board. Encourage children to discuss what the number sentence means and to create a story about it. Some children may think that the same number cannot go in the square and in the triangle in the number sentence from the Headline Story. While the same number must replace the same shapes in a number sentence , the same number can replace different shapes in a number sentence as well. Therefore, 5 + 5 = 10 is an appropriate response.