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4: Advanced Counting - Addition and Subtraction

 

Tane has 5 biscuits. He gives 2 to his little brother. How many does he have left?


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Student: Five... four, three.

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Students at the Advanced Counting stage understand that the end number in a counting sequence measures the whole set and can relate the addition or subtraction of objects to the forward and backward number sequences by ones, tens, etc.