Here is a sentence: Aoife has some sweets, and then she gets 5 more.

Watch four word situations turn into expressions on the board. In each one, look for the word that tells us which operation to use.

In the next one something is taken away, so watch which number we start from, because with subtracting the order changes the answer.

Then comes a shopping situation where the same item is bought again and again, and that repeating is what points us to an operation.

The last one shares an amount out fairly between people, so ask yourself what each person ends up with.

Today we build expressions together, one at a time. Name the operation word before we write the symbols. We will work through these situations:

• 3 more than a number b
• a number k less than 10
• the cost of g apples at 50c each
• a pizza cut into 8 slices shared among s people

Today we work through these, each one a step harder:

• the cost of n match tickets at €12 each
• d days until the school tour, minus 3
• twice the goals scored, plus 1