Math Concept Reader
Party Plans
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Math Concept Reader
Party Plans
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Math Concept Reader
Party Plans
by Joan Freese
Photographs by Gregg Andersen
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Chapter 1:
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How many people will be at the party? There are 21
children, and there will be 2 adults. Mr. Kent will be at the party,
and a special guest will come, too.
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The class writes an addition number sentence.
21 + 2 = 23
The sum is the number of people who will be at the par
ty.
There will be 23 people in all. The class needs to bring enough
food for 23 people. They need to bring enough drinks, too.
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Chapter 3:
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The students will string beads at the party. The art teacher
has strong cord they can use. The beads are two different shapes.
Team Four has 9 packs of long beads and 21 packs of round
beads. How many more packs of round beads than long beads
do they have?
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Chapter 4:
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Now Mr. Kent has a question. There are five teams, and four
teams have already done a job for the party.
How many teams have not done a job?
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That is easy! The children do the math in their heads. Four
teams have done jobs. One team has not done a job.
That team is ready to work now!
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Team Five is excited. They listen to Mr. Kent and wait for
him to tell them their job. He tells them it is an important job
and is fun to do.
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They will help serve juice and muffins. Hooray, Team Five!
Everyone is hungry! The class eats muffins and drinks juice.
Some children talk about their beads. Susan gives Ms.
Brown a bracelet. Ms. Brown puts on the bracelet.
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It is time to clean up now. The children work together.
They throw away the trash. They wipe the tables clean.
Mr. Kent says, “Good work!”
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The children had fun stringing beads. They liked their
snacks and juice. Everyone had a great time.
The class cannot wait to use math to plan another party!
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Glossary
add to join 2 groups
number sentence 21 + 2 = 23 is a number sentence.
36 – 11 = 25 is also a number sentence.
subtract to take away objects from a group or to
compare groups
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