The purpose of this activity is for students to learn Stage 4 of the Math Stories center. One student poses an addition or subtraction story problem about a picture. Their partner represents and solves the story problem. Pages of picture books can also be used to help students generate stories.

The recording sheet includes directions and a line for recording an equation to represent each problem. Students do not need to write equations at this point in the unit. To avoid this distraction or possible confusion, consider using the recording sheet from Math Stories, Stage 3 until Section D.

• Invite previously identified students to share.
• “How did __ represent the story problem?”
• “How did __ show the answer to the story problem?”

The purpose of this activity is for students to choose from activities that offer practice organizing and representing data, telling and solving story problems, and adding and subtracting within 10.

• Sort and Display
• Math Stories
• Find the Pair

• “What is one thing you learned or got better at by working on the center you chose?”