Question Video: Sorting Shapes to Understand that a Number can be Decomposed in More Than One Way Mathematics

Video Transcript

Here are seven shapes. There are three squares. Complete the number bond to figure out the number of circles.

We know there are three squares. So let’s count the number of circles. There’s one, two, three, four. There are three squares and four circles. Three and four makes seven. The missing number to complete the number bond was four.