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13 exemplars with easy format for beginning problem solvers
The format of each exemplar has a box for pictures, explantion and final answers.
Common Core Aligned!
Understand addition, and understand subtraction.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.1
Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings1, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
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