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Develop Meaning For The Four Basic Arithmetic Operations by Modeling and Discussing A Variety of Problems

The document provides explanations of the four basic arithmetic operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - through examples involving groups of pencils. Addition combines quantities, subtraction removes one quantity from another, multiplication combines quantities by adding them the same number of times, and division splits a quantity into smaller values.

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Develop Meaning For The Four Basic Arithmetic Operations by Modeling and Discussing A Variety of Problems

The document provides explanations of the four basic arithmetic operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - through examples involving groups of pencils. Addition combines quantities, subtraction removes one quantity from another, multiplication combines quantities by adding them the same number of times, and division splits a quantity into smaller values.

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Tutorial 6 October 1, 2020

Develop meaning for the four basic arithmetic operations by modeling and
discussing a variety of problems.

Addition is the most basic operation of


Addition arithmetic. In its simplest form, addition
combines two quantities into a single
quantity, or sum.
For example, say you have a group of 12
pencils and another group of 20 pencils. If
you combine both groups together, you
now have one group of 32 pencils. To
represent this idea in mathematical terms:
12 + 20 = 32

Subtraction is the opposite of addition.


Subtraction Instead of adding quantities together, we
are removing one quantity from another
to find the difference between the two.
Continuing the previous example, say you
start with a group of 32 pencils. If you
then remove 12 pencils from that group,
you are left with 20 pencils. In
mathematical terms:
32 – 12 = 20

Multiplication also combines multiple


Multiplication quantities into a single quantity, called
the product. In fact, multiplication can be
thought of as a consolidation of many
additions.
Specifically, the product of x and y is the
Tutorial 6 October 1, 2020

result of x added together y times. For


example, one way of counting three
groups of 12 pencils is to add the groups
together:
12 + 12 + 12 = 36

However, another way to count the boxes


is to multiply the quantities:

12 × 4=8

Division is the inverse of multiplication.


Rather than multiplying quantities
Division together to result in a larger value, you
are splitting a quantity into a smaller
value, called the quotient. Again, to return
to the box example, splitting up a group of
8 pencils into 4 equal groups results in 4
groups of 2 pencils:

8÷4=2

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