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Remember Turkish Delight?

Remember Turkish Delight?

The candy factory makes all kinds of candy. The most popular candy is Turkish Delight. People line up around the block just to buy boxes of Turkish Delight!

Turkish Delight comes in boxes of 10. But sometimes, the workers at the factory are moving too fast, and they make mistakes!

BOXES OF TEN

One thing that you might remember is that you don’t need to count to tell how much candy is in a box. You can know really fast – just by looking!

Try these! How many in each box? See how fast you can go!

WHEN YOU CAN, MAKE 10!

Another thing! When you have a lot of boxes and you have to add them up – make 10!

Here are five boxes – can you figure out how many candies are here? Remember to find the 10s first!

Got it??? Here is how we would solve that problem:

Step 1: Write out the numbers

Remember Turkish Delight?

Step 2: Find 10s

Remember Turkish Delight?

Step 3: Write a new problem and solve

Remember Turkish Delight?

And now for a problem!

Choose one of the problems below to solve. You can choose any problem you want. If you choose one and it seems too challenging, try a different one. If it does not seem challenging enough, try a different one!