Arithmetic Grade Two

Lesson Thirty-eight: Adding Three Numbers

Sometimes regrouping in the ones column is called carrying a one to the tens column. When you carry a "ONE TO THE TENS COLUMN" you need to remember that a one in the tens column is worth TEN (since it's in the tens column). 

    55
    13
   +26
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Problem without answer

    1
    55
    13
   +26
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     4
Adding the 5, 3 and 6 in the ones column we get 14. We take the 4 from 14 and place it in the ones column of the answer and we carry the 1 above the tens column above the addends.

    1
    55
    13
   +26
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    94
We add up the 1, 5, 1 and 2 in the tens column.

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