4: Advanced Counting - Addition and Subtraction

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Erin takes 37 minutes to run the cross country. Brian takes 9 minutes more than Erin. How long does Brian take?


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Student: Thirty-seven... Thirty-eight, Thirty-nine, forty, forty-one, forty-two, forty-three, forty-four, forty-five, forty-six.
Teacher: How did you know when to stop counting?
Student: When I got to nine fingers.

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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.