Join Ansh and Anshika, two curious friends, as they turn math into a colorful playground of discovery. From popping balloons to a hungry monkey's snack, this charming story makes learning subtraction and regrouping an exciting journey for every young learner.
Ansh and Anshika are sitting on a colorful rug in their bright living room, surrounded by nine vibrant balloons. Anshika, with her neat blunt cut hair and pretty frock, smiles as she counts the balloons while Ansh watches with his big, curious eyes and silky hair falling over his forehead.
Suddenly, three balloons go pop, leaving Anshika surprised as the pieces flutter to the floor. Ansh explains that when we take away three from nine, we are doing subtraction, and he points to a wooden minus sign they placed between them.
On a small chalkboard, they write down 9 minus 3 equals 6, then try a bigger problem like 28 minus 2 equals 26. They use a string of colorful Vedic math beads to count backward and visualize the numbers clearly.
Anshika holds seven shiny marbles and doesn't give any away, showing that 7 minus 0 is still 7. They learn that subtracting zero from any number leaves the number exactly the same, like a mirror reflecting itself.
Ansh has ten colorful stickers and gives all of them to Anshika, leaving him with none in his hands. They laugh together as they discover that subtracting a number from itself always leaves a difference of zero.
They look at a number line on the wall and see that taking away one from 17 lands them right on 16. They realize that subtracting one is just like finding the number that comes right before it in a sequence.
Ansh opens a box of 24 crayons but realizes he cannot easily give 5 to Anshika because there are only 4 single ones shown. They decide to use their math beads to regroup one bundle of ten into ten individual ones to solve the problem.
Now with 14 single ones, Ansh subtracts 5 to get 9, and the remaining ten stays in its place. He hands Anshika the crayons, happy to see the numbers written out showing he has exactly 19 left in his box.
They read a story about a naughty monkey who visits a fruit stall with 30 yellow bananas and eats 8 of them. To find out how many are left, they prepare to regroup the three tens into two tens and ten ones on their bead frame.
After subtracting 8 from 10 to get 2, and bringing down the 2 tens, they find that 22 bananas remain in the stall. Ansh and Anshika high-five, feeling like math superheroes after mastering the magic of subtraction and regrouping.
For writing this story we need a 7 year old boy and 7 year old girl. The boy should have big eyes and silky hair on his forehead and the girl should have silky blunt cut hair wearing a frock. These characters should look Indians. The content for the story is they are learning a topic of Grade 2 Maths. Topic. Anshika had 9 balloons. 3 balloons burst. How many are left? We take away 3 from 9. Taking away is subtraction. The sign for subtraction is - minus. Show some examples of simple subtraction like 28-2=26. Properties of subtraction - When you subtract 0 from a number, the difference is the number itself. Show some examples like 7-0=7. When you subtract a number from itself, the difference is 0. Show some examples like 10-10=0.When you subtract 1 from a number, the difference is the number before, show some examples like 17-1=16.Subtraction by regrouping - Subtracting a 1 digit number from a 2 digit number. Example, Ansh had 24 crayons. He gave 5 crayons to Anshika. How many crayons were left with Ansh?Show these numbers while the concept is explained. Explain it like there are not enough ones. So regroup 1 ten into 10 ones.Now there are 1 ten and 14 ones.Subtract the ones.Example 14-9=9.Write 9 in ones place.Subtract the tens.1-0=1 ten.Write 1 in the tens place.Ansh has 19 crayons left.A fruitseller had 30 bananas in his stall.A naughty monkey ate 8 bananas.How many bananas were left in the stall?Step 1-there are not enough ones, so regroup 1 ten into 10 ones.Now there are 2 tens and 10 ones.Step 2-subtract the ones,10-8=2 ones.Write 2 in the ones place.Subtract the tens,2-2=0 tens.Write 2 in the tens place.22 bananas were leftvin the fruit seller's stall. While you explain this entire subtraction concept show numeric values as well as vedic maths visuals the beads.Show a story format that Ansh Anshika are learning the concept of subtraction.
amlish riaz
Arun Nair
Aida Ryskeldi
Ильмира Тилекешова
Nahereen Pathan
SANTE, KEVIN CLARK C.
