I'm exploring under the canopy
I see monkeys and count twenty-three
Some climb a tree, now I count twenty
This number sentence describes what I see
How many monkeys climbed, I'll find out
Because that's the unknown I want to know about
I try a three and that's when I see
How many monkeys climbed up a tree, three
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Write down what we need to find out
With a statement that makes sense of the problem
As a number sentence
I went exploring in Antarctica
And saw through my binoculars
Thirty-two penguins on an iceberg
Eighteen more appeared from the ice water
To find out how many there were
I wrote a number sentence so I'd be sure
Now I can see the solution is fifty penguins
Resting on top of the deep blue ocean
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As a number sentence
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As a number sentence