Animal Word Problems Starring Addition and Subtraction by Rebecca Wingard-Nelson

Author:Rebecca Wingard-Nelson [Wingard-Nelson, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4645-0627-7
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2009-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Zeros

Some problems are easy to solve when you know about zeros.

Here’s the problem.

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An opossum ate 27 grubs in the morning. It did not eat any grubs in the afternoon. How many grubs did it eat in all?

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Read and understand.

What do you know?

The opossum ate 27 grubs in the morning. It ate zero more in the afternoon.

What are you trying to find?

The number of grubs the opossum ate in all.

Plan.

Since the opossum ate zero grubs in the afternoon, you can use what you know about zeros to answer the question.

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