Question Video: Solving Word Problems by Decomposing Numbers into Pairs in More Than One Way Mathematics

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There are four monkeys. There are two monkeys on the tree. Complete the number bond to figure out the number of monkeys that are not on the tree. Four, two, and the missing number.

We know there are four monkeys altogether and we can see that two of the monkeys are on the tree. How many monkeys are not on the tree? Two. Two and two makes four.

So we completed the number bond by adding the two monkeys that are not on the tree. Two plus two makes four.