4: Advanced Counting - Multiplication and Division

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At the orchard apples are packed in trays. Each tray has 8 rows of apples with 5 apples in each row. How many apples in each tray?

Teacher: How many apples in each tray?
Student: Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty five, thirty, thirty five, forty. That's forty apples.

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Students at the Advanced Counting stage understand that the end number in a counting sequence measures the whole set and can relate the addition or subtraction of objects to the forward and backward number sequences by ones, tens, etc.