ACMNA083

Find unknown quantities in number sentences involving addition and subtraction and identify equivalent number sentences involving addition and subtraction

Elaborations

• writing number sentences to represent and answer questions such as: ‘When a number is added to 23 the answer is the same as 57 minus 19. What is the number?’ (Skills: Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• using partitioning to find unknown quantities in number sentences (Skills: Literacy, Numeracy)

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