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Represent a quantity within twenty using frame structure. Explore a model, explain the relationship, and try it with physical materials.
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Represent a quantity within twenty using frame structure. Explore a model, explain the relationship, and try it with physical materials.
Describe a sum through a known group of five. Explore a model, explain the relationship, and try it with physical materials.
Connect missing-addend reasoning to a concrete model. Explore a model, explain the relationship, and try it with physical materials.
Justify equivalent arrangements without recounting every item. Explore a model, explain the relationship, and try it with physical materials.
Connect a full frame with the ten in a teen number. Explore a model, explain the relationship, and try it with physical materials.
Relate removal to the original part-whole relationship. Explore a model, explain the relationship, and try it with physical materials.
Decompose an addend to complete ten before combining the rest. Explore a model, explain the relationship, and try it with physical materials.
Derive a near-double from a known equal-group sum. Explore a model, explain the relationship, and try it with physical materials.
Identify which quantity answers the question. Explore a model, explain the relationship, and try it with physical materials.
Explain a difference as unmatched counters. Explore a model, explain the relationship, and try it with physical materials.