43 + 5
Imagine you have forty-three stickers. A friend gives you five more. How many do you have now?
Let's hop along a number line. Here are the numbers from forty to fifty.
We start at forty-three — that's how many stickers we had to begin with.
Now we jump five steps forward, one for each new sticker.
We land on forty-eight!
We can also stack the numbers. Line up the ones with the ones.
Always start with the ones column on the right.
What is three plus five?
Eight! Write eight in the ones place.
There's nothing to add to the tens, so the four just stays right where it is.
Forty-three plus five equals forty-eight. Great work!