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Students will explore the relationship between number stories, number bonds and number sentences. Pictures are utilized to demonstrate scenarios of adding (putting things together) and subtracting (taking things apart). These scenarios will allow students to create addition and subtraction stories. The stories are used to reinforce the part-whole concept of the number bond. When students become comfortable with developing number stories and writing the related number bond, they will be introduced the writing the corresponding number sentence that represents either addition or subtraction. For students to understand that numbers are a symbol and not specifically tied with any particular thing, math facts will be presented in different contexts. At this stage, “+”, “-“, and “=” will be introduced. Eventually students should be able to write two addition and two subtraction facts for a given number bond without any pictorial representation. Practices involving writing number bonds for numbers from 1 to 10 and the corresponding math facts for each number bond will help students to solve equations and ultimately remember their math facts within 10 by recalling related number bonds. Upon completion of the course, students will:
 * Course Description**
 * Course Outcomes**
 * Indentify the components of a number bond.
 * Construct a number bond for a given set of numbers.
 * Create the addition and subtraction sentences for a number bond.
 * Explain the relationship between addition and subtraction.