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Addition and Subtraction of One Digit Numbers 2061 Views


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What better way to teach simple addition and subtraction than with dress-up? Math skills will go great with that pink frilly number hanging in your closet.

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00:00

we see addition and subtraction of one digit numbers a la shmoop

00:07

Molly is desperately searching for the perfect homecoming dress [girl in dress store]

00:11

Jake the finest boy she ever did see asked her to the dance so this dress [boy asks girl to dance in school corridor]

00:15

needs to be as perfect as he is Molly is convinced her dad to come with her to

00:20

shop at the mall and to bring his wallet and credit cards [girl asks dad for wallet]

00:23

he's putting his foot down though saying she will try on only seven dresses and

00:27

no more molly finds a yellow dress and tosses it and her dad to hold

00:31

that's one she's determined to try on as many as she can in as many different

00:35

colors as she can Molly squeals as she pulls out a short red dress tossing it

00:42

toward her dad he snatches it out of the air two down on a mission

00:46

Holly attacks another rack her father struggles to catch the flying dresses

00:50

and closely watches the numbers as they add up boom boom boom

00:53

with each dress missile dad adds one to the count one of these seven dresses had

00:58

better be the one because Dad is getting impatient after what seems like an

01:01

eternity Molly comes out in her first dress dad obviously that's not approved

01:05

since that one didn't work we can take one away from the possible dresses six

01:10

To Go Molly appears in the second dress she

01:13

looks like she lost her sheep we're not sure what she was thinking when she

01:17

picked this one down to four oh man take another off the dress count still no

01:25

good wow we're down to our last option fingers crossed

01:28

just like baby bears porridge this one is just right hey if it's good enough

01:32

for Dad should be good enough for Jake

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