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The Christmas Problem

From Peg + Cat · 2014

The Christmas Problem
27 minK1stMath
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Summary

When Santa needs help, Peg and Cat take on their biggest problem ever: make and wrap presents for all the children of the world, then launch 100 sleighs. To get there, Peg counts all the way to 100 — one decade at a time — in this double-length holiday special.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

Peg breaks one giant problem into smaller steps and counts to 100 to save Christmas.

  1. Peg counts 20, 30, 40… up to 100. What number comes after 70? After 90?
  2. How does breaking the big job into smaller steps make it easier?
  3. Can you count from 50 all the way to 100?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: one hundred, count on, decade (tens), step by step.

Try it: Start at 80 and count out loud to 100. Then count to 100 by tens (10, 20, 30 …).

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