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5: Early Additive - Multiplication and Division

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Marcie has four bags of lollies. There are three lollies in each bag. How many lollies does she have altogether?

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Teacher: How many lollies does Marcie have altogether?
Student: Three plus three equals six, six plus six equals twelve.

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At the Early Additive stage, students have begun to recognise that numbers are abstract units that can be treated simultaneously as wholes or can be partitioned and recombined. This is called part-whole thinking.