Headline Story
Building Addition and Subtraction Fluency, #4
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Introduction
Share the Headline Story with the class. Sometimes it helps children to review what they do know and what they don’t know. In this problem, they do know that Kieran paid with a quarter. They don’t know the price of the eraser or what change he got. What prices are possible? How do you find the change?
Headline Story
Kieran bought an eraser and paid with a quarter. The eraser cost _____¢ and Kieran got _____¢ back in change.
Possible student responses
- If the eraser cost 13¢, then he got 12¢ back in change.
- If the eraser cost 20¢, then he got 5¢ back in change.
- Maybe we could make a table of possible answers.
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