Understanding Number Combinations and Totals

The video tutorial introduces the concepts of composing and decomposing numbers, using examples with the numbers four and seven. The teacher explains how smaller numbers can combine to form larger numbers and how larger numbers can be broken down into smaller ones. Apples are used as a visual aid to demonstrate these concepts, showing different ways to group and separate them to illustrate the numbers four and seven.

What is the process called when smaller numbers combine to form a larger number?

• Decomposing

• Composing

• Subtracting

• Dividing

What is the process called when a larger number is broken down into smaller numbers?

• Multiplying

• Adding

• Decomposing

• Composing

If you have two and two, what number do they form when combined?

• Three

• Six

• Five

• Four

Which of the following combinations can also make the number four?

• Two and three

• Three and one

• One and one

• Four and zero

How many apples are there in total when you have two apples here and two apples there?

• Six

• Three

• Four

• Five

What happens to the total number of apples if one apple moves from one group to another?

• The total decreases

• The total increases

• The total becomes zero

• The total remains the same

What is the total number of apples when you have three apples with yellow hats and four with green hats?

• Eight

• Nine

• Seven

• Six

If you have five apples with little hats and two with big hats, how many apples do you have in total?

• Six

• Nine

• Eight

• Seven

What is the total number of apples when you have one apple with a bite and six without?

• Seven

• Five

• Eight

• Six

Which combination of numbers can also make the number seven?

• One and six

• Two and four

• Five and three

• Three and three