Video Transcript
There are three black sheep and
five white sheep in a field. How many sheep are in the
field?
Let’s start by reading through
our word problem again. To begin with, we’re told that
there are three black sheep and five white sheep in a field. And the question then asks us,
how many sheep are in the field? We know that there are three
black sheep and five white sheep, but the question’s asking us, how many sheep
there are altogether? How could we find the
answer? What do we need to do? Well, we could start by just
doing a quick sketch so that we understand what the question is asking us. Here are three black sheep. You don’t have to be able to
draw a sheep to be able to answer the question. These look just like clouds
with legs, don’t they? But they’ll do.
Three black sheep and five
white sheep. To find out the total number of
sheep in the field, we need to add three and five together. Three plus five equals
what? Let’s use a number track to
help us find the answer. We could start with the number
three, this represents our three black sheep, and then count on another
five. One, two, three, four,
five. We’ve ended on the number
eight. We’ve used addition to add two
groups of sheep together. Three plus five equals
eight.
