Question Video: Breaking Apart a Group of Up to 10 Objects into Two Parts Mathematics

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Complete the following sentence. When I take eight apart, I get three and what.

This question is all about breaking apart our cube train. We’re told that our cube train has eight cubes, and we have to break it apart into two parts. We’re told that one of the parts has three cubes, so let’s count out our three cubes: one, two, three. Now we can count the number of cubes in the other part. One, two, three, four, five. Now we can complete the sentence. When I take eight apart, I get three and five. The missing number is five.