Little Word and Number Decisions

A. Twelve books

Nine plus seven makes sixteen books before lending. Removing the four lent books leaves twelve, so the answer follows both changes in order rather than stopping after the first addition in the story.

Try next: Show the addition and subtraction with counters.

B. Four groups and one left

Four groups of four use sixteen buttons, leaving one of the seventeen. A fifth complete group would require four more buttons than the remaining one, so it cannot be formed from this supplied set.

Try next: Draw four circles and place the leftover button outside.

C. Eight

Eight belongs in the box because six plus eight equals fourteen. The answer can also be checked by removing six from fourteen and counting the eight counters remaining in that second method.

Try next: Fill the box and read the completed sentence aloud.

A. Twenty-five

Two bundles contribute twenty sticks, and the five separate sticks bring the total to twenty-five. Counting seven visible objects would ignore that each bundle represents ten sticks according to the activity's explicit rule.

Try next: Write twenty plus five beside the picture.

B. Ten and seven

Moving one from eight leaves seven, while adding it to nine creates ten. The total stays seventeen because the counter was moved between groups rather than added from outside the original collection here.

Try next: Combine ten and seven to check the original sum.

C. 41

Forty-one contains four tens, while fourteen contains one ten. The larger tens amount makes 41 greater here, even though fourteen's ones digit is larger than forty-one's ones digit in these two cards.

Try next: Build both numbers with tens and ones drawings.

A. Under the bench

The passage explicitly places the blue bag under the bench. The hat is on the bench, so choosing that position for the bag would swap the two objects' locations instead of following the text.

Try next: Underline the words that locate the bag.

B. Ben's shoes were wet.

The passage directly states that the shoes were wet. It gives no cause, so the pond and all-day rain claims add details beyond the story rather than answering from the information actually supplied to the reader.

Try next: Separate the stated detail from possible explanations.

C. Tie the ribbon

The instruction places tying directly after folding and before carrying. Selecting the ribbon step preserves that order, while carrying skips a stated action and unfolding introduces an action absent from the given sequence entirely.

Try next: Number the three stated actions in order.

A. Log

Replacing the starting sound in dog with the starting sound in leaf produces log. The ending sounds stay unchanged, while dot changes the ending and fog uses a different starting sound from the requested one.

Try next: Say the original and changed words slowly together.

B. Pen

The requested vowel is the one in pen, while the starting and ending sounds stay the same as pin. That produces pen; pan uses a different vowel, and pig changes the final sound instead.

Try next: Point to the letter representing the changed middle sound.

C. Three claps

The supplied model has three spoken parts: ba, na and na. One clap for each part gives three claps, while counting the six letters would answer a different question from the modeled sound activity.

Try next: Clap once for each shown spoken part.

A. Where is the kite?

Where is the kite asks for information, so a question mark fits that sentence. The other card states a color, making it a statement rather than a question in the wording supplied for this activity.

Try next: Read each sentence aloud and identify its purpose.

B. The fox sleeps.

The first version changes only the sentence's initial letter to a capital. The all-capitals version changes every letter's case, and the final option changes the words and event rather than making the requested limited correction.

Try next: Circle the corrected first letter.

C. Tara

Tara is the named person who carried the box, and She continues that person's action in the next sentence. The chair is an object, while a new character is not introduced in the supplied passage.

Try next: Replace She with Tara to check the meaning.

A. 12

Adding three to the last number, nine, gives twelve. The answer follows the rule explicitly provided for this activity, so another possible rule is unnecessary even if a short sequence could otherwise have several interpretations.

Try next: Write plus three between each neighboring pair.

B. Square

The second block has begun with triangle and one square, so another square completes it. A triangle would start the next block too early, and a circle does not appear in the stated repeating block.

Try next: Draw a boundary around each complete three-shape block.

C. 11

Fourteen minus three equals eleven, which continues the supplied rule. The earlier steps also subtract three, from twenty to seventeen and seventeen to fourteen, so the same change fits every shown transition here.

Try next: Say the subtraction at each step aloud.

A. B

Only B remains after excluding A and C. Because the puzzle states that exactly one of these three boxes contains the star, the remaining box must be the answer under the supplied rules here.

Try next: Cross out the two excluded boxes first.

B. Jo

Jo is taller than Lee, who is already taller than Pat. Those comparisons place Jo above both others in height, so the answer follows the ordering supplied in the story rather than age or appearance.

Try next: Write the three names from tallest to shortest.

C. Yellow

Red and blue are ruled out by the clue. Yellow is the only remaining offered color, and the game guarantees that one of those three was chosen, so no additional color needs to be invented.

Try next: Cross out the excluded colors and name the remainder.

A. Twelve units

Six strips of two units each total twelve units. Counting six would give the number of strips, not their combined length, so the length per strip must be included in the calculation for this example.

Try next: Write two units beneath every strip before adding.

B. 2:25

Adding fifteen minutes to 2:10 gives 2:25. The calculation stays within the same hour, so there is no need to advance the hour or confuse the duration fifteen with the finishing minute value.

Try next: Move a drawn minute hand forward fifteen minutes.

C. Five, one and one

Five plus one plus one totals seven and uses three coins. The other combinations still use three coins but total eleven and three, so they fail the value requirement of this particular activity.

Try next: Check both the value and the coin count.

A. Find the small yellow cup.

The first clue preserves the object's size, color and type. The vague clue gives too little information, while the bowl description points to a different object rather than helping the partner identify the intended cup.

Try next: Underline the three useful details in the precise clue.

B. The Missing Mitten

The missing mitten is the problem that organizes the supplied story and is resolved at its end. The other titles introduce unrelated events, so they would mislead a reader about what this passage actually contains.

Try next: Choose a title from the story's central event.

C. The box was moved and the boat retrieved.

Retrieving the boat resolves the specific problem introduced in the beginning. The bird's song is unrelated, while leaving the boat behind the box preserves the problem rather than providing a resolving ending to this story.

Try next: Write one connecting sentence leading to the resolving ending.