"G'day, friend! It's me, Biscuit. Today we're going on a little counting adventure around Burraga Hollow. Grab your pencil — let's have a go together!"
Warm-up: Counting gumnuts
Biscuit keeps his gumnuts in a little basket. Let's help him count them into groups.
Q1. Biscuit found 4 gumnuts under the gum tree and 3 more by the creek. How many gumnuts altogether?
4 + 3 =
Q2. 6 + 5 =
Q3. 8 + 7 =
Patch the Ball: sharing game
Biscuit rolls Patch to a friend, and they roll it back. Every roll, they add more gumnuts to the pile by the hollow log.
Q4. The pile has 12 gumnuts. Pip rolls Patch back and adds 15 more. How many now?
12 + 15 =
Q5. 23 + 14 =
A Hollow adventure
Q6. Bo the bandicoot dug up 18 gumnuts. Mae the cat brought 16 from the word log. How many gumnuts did the friends gather together?
Q7. Ollie the owl counted 25 stars, then 9 more peeked out from behind a cloud. How many stars did Ollie count in all? Show your working.