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Henry74 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Take away

Hi,

It is my understanding that "take away" is used in children's arithmetic instead of "subtract". E.g. "If you have five apples and you take away two, how many apples do you have left?"

Is there a corresponding word for "add"? "take one more" maybe?

Thanks a lot
H.
  

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Henry74 Is there a corresponding word for "add"? "take one more" maybe? Not that I know of.

— Philip

  • Henry74 Is there a corresponding word for "add"?
  • "take one more" maybe?
  • Not that I know of.
  • There are other words that would perhaps make sense, but I can't think of any that are actually used.
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Henry74Is there a corresponding word for "add"? "take one more" maybe?
Not that I know of. There are other words that would perhaps make sense, but I can't think of any that are actually used.
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This is only used with very young children. With kids over the age of, say, 4, this sounds demeaning. For addition, pre-school teachers maybe say something like:

"We have 5 apples on the table. We put 2 more apples on the table. Now, how many apples do we have on the table?"

Once the kids start to work with abstract numbers, things like this are no longer said, as they become
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