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Grade 2 · Addition

Game-club cards: add through a new ten

At a board-game club, a first group contains 18 cards and another group brings 7 cards. Change the controls and explain what the animation reveals.

Predict what will happen, press Play, then pause and explain what changed. Every control also works without playback.

Watch the relationship

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Game-club cards: add through a new ten. Starting amount: 18. Joined so far: 0. Current total: 1818 + 0 = 18Keep the first part; add only the part that arrives.
The quantities are invented for this investigation. Controls change the model rather than real-world records. Displayed decimals are rounded; whole-number counts are exact.

Starts paused. Play once, pause anywhere, or use Step to inspect the mathematics. Playback stops when this panel leaves the screen.

Make it your experiment

Change one value. Notice what follows.

The controls adjust the model. Numbers below describe the current frame. Decimals are rounded.

Starting amount
18
Joined so far
0
Current total
18

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Understand what you are seeing

The idea behind the motion.

At a board-game club, a first group contains 18 cards and another group brings 7 cards. Addition joins two disjoint groups. Keep the starting group in the count while the second group arrives; the result includes every object from both groups. The final 25 can be checked by removing the 7 arrivals and recovering 18. For larger totals the bars summarize quantities rather than drawing every object.

A relationship to keep

18 + 7 = 25

Read the symbols alongside the explanation. A diagram shows the relationship; the assumptions tell you when it applies.

  1. STEP 1

    Read the starting situation

    At a board-game club, a first group contains 18 cards and another group brings 7 cards. Identify what each number measures before changing a control; the worked example refers to these starting values.

  2. STEP 2

    Follow the mathematical change

    Scrub from no arrivals to all arrivals. The current total grows by the number of objects that have joined so far. Pause on an intermediate frame and compare the picture with the live readouts.

  3. STEP 3

    Explain and test the relationship

    The final 25 can be checked by removing the 7 arrivals and recovering 18. For larger totals the bars summarize quantities rather than drawing every object. Change one input, predict its effect, and test whether the same relationship still works.

Your turn to explain

Make a prediction. Test your reasoning.

Game-club cards: use the original situation. At a board-game club, a first group contains 18 cards and another group brings 7 cards. If one extra object joins the second group, what is the final total?

Use the values specified in the question. Reset restores the initial values for this investigation.

Compare your explanation

18 + (7 + 1) = 26. One additional arrival increases the total by one.

Work through a full lesson

Connect the animation to a worked example and practice questions.

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