Let us solve the problem.

Gugu collected 234 stickers. Mandla gave her 501 more stickers. How many stickers does she have now?

What is the question? How many stickers does she have now? What is the key word? more

This is what Lisa did to solve Gugu's problem.	What are the numbers? 234 and 501 Let us show this with our base ten blocks

This is what Aakar did. He made a drawing.

How is Lisa’s placing of her base ten blocks similar to Aakar’s drawing.

Use the number in the problem to solve it below using two methods you have learnt so far. Blocks

Method 1

Method 2

Thembi collects items for the schools recycling projects. She collected 624 plastic bottles and 268 tin cans. How many items has she collected?

What is the question?

What are the numbers?	What is the key word? Tick the correct answer. The key word tells us to: Add Subtract
Make a drawing.	Make a drawing.

The shop had 900 packets of sugar. After selling some packets, they had 659 packets of sugar left. How many packets did they sell?

What is the question?

What are the numbers?	What is the key word? Tick the correct answer. The key word tells us to: Add Subtract
Make a drawing.	Make a drawing.