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Stack It Up: Column Addition

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Warm-Up: How Many Altogether?

Warm-Up: How Many Altogether?

Imagine you have 36 stickers and your friend gives you 47 more. How would you work out the total? You could count on your fingers, but what if the numbers were really big? Today you will learn a method that works for ANY numbers — column addition. Before we start, try this: what is 6 + 7? Hold that answer in your head — you will need it soon!

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Can you think of a time when you needed to add two numbers that were bigger than 20? What did you do?

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