Headline Story
Addition and Subtraction in Depth, #6
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Introduction
Read the Headline Story to your students. Encourage students to use the problem solving strategy make a table to record possible solutions.
Headline Story
Twenty-three children want to go on a ride at the fair. The ride has 9 cars, and each car can hold up to 3 children.
Possible student responses
- You can make a table to show different ways the children can go on the ride:
| Cars with 3 Children | Cars with 2 Children | Cars with 1 Child | Empty Cars |
| 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
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