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Bears in a Box

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First graders count bears to predict missing addends. They analyze the missing addend sentence: 7 + ? = 10 and count up from 7 to 10 and check to see if there are 3 bears in the box.

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Concepts

making predictions, counting, missing numbers

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counting, predictions, unknown addend, math

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