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Train Carriages- Addition

There are 8 passengers on two carriages. You make one stop and another 8 get on. At the end how many are in each carriage. Show all possibilities.

You might like to show this using a number line, two tens frames or a number sentence.

Enabling Prompt: You have two train carriages. There are 9 people on the train. How many could be on each carriage.

You might like to show this using a number sentence, a number line or using a tens frame.

Extending Prompt:There are 36 passengers in total on a three carriage train

There are 4 more people in the middle carriage than the first carriage. 

How many different combinations can you think of?

Present your findings in whatever format that shows your understanding.