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Students' Thinking

> Challenge:

In this challenge, you are to focus on the students' reasoning about early number concepts (for example, partitioning of collections of items and relationships among numbers) and about beginning addition and subtraction. Examine how the activities used in the lessons supported the development of the students' understandings of those concepts.

To begin, consider this episode from the Double Ten Frames class session:

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