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Introduction
Display the Headline Story pictured in the sidebar or copy it on the board. Encourage children to respond to this Headline Story with a story and with a matching number sentence.
Possible student responses
- If you put a 3 in place of the circle, then 13 should replace the triangle.
- I built a tower using 3 yellow blocks and 10 blue blocks so it was 13 blocks tall. 3 + 10 = 13.
- I had a collection of 4 baseballs and then I bought 10 more so that my collection grew to 14 baseballs. 4 + 10 = 14.
- There are 6 girls and 10 boys on my soccer team so there are 16 players on the team. 6 + 10 = 16.