On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me… a partridge in a pear tree.

Can you imagine getting all those presents? By Day 12, as well as all the presents, you’d probably have a messy carpet and a bit of a headache! Today’s investigation is about the number of those presents…

If you were to be given all of the presents in the song, how many gifts would you end up with?

How could we find this out?

WALT: solve addition problems.

Aspire: I can solve addition problems and explain how I know my answer is correct.

Challenge: I can use jottings to help me add amounts.

Achieve: I can add small amounts using resources.

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