Question Video: Writing Addition Expressions for Word Problems Represented by Pictures Mathematics • 1st Grade

A fisherman caught 2 fish. Then he caught 1 more. Which of these tells you how many fish he caught in total? [A] 2 − 1 [B] 2 + 1 [C] 2 + 2.

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A fisherman caught two fish. Then, he caught one more. Which of these tells you how many fish he caught in total? Two take away one, two plus one, or two plus two.

We know the fisherman caught two fish and then he caught one more. We could write this as two plus one. The correct answer is two plus one.

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