# Maya's Market

![Figure 1: A girl in an apron stands behind a wooden market stall piled high with red and green apples](https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/api/generate/811c43ff-6220-4b14-ac74-eee9e87b11ac/asset/1991)

Maya helped at her grandmother's market stall on Saturday morning. She counted out the apples. There were thirty-five red ones and twenty-two green ones. How many apples altogether? Maya added thirty-five plus twenty-two. She made a group of ten green apples first. Now she had forty-five plus twelve. That made fifty-seven apples in total. At lunchtime, a customer bought nineteen apples. Maya subtracted nineteen from fifty-seven. She counted back by tens. Fifty-seven minus ten was forty-seven. Forty-seven minus nine was thirty-eight. Thirty-eight apples remained on the stall. Grandmother smiled. You are a natural mathematician, she said. Maya felt proud.

## Words to know

- **subtract**: take away a number from another number to find the difference
- **altogether**: the total when you put numbers together
- **compose**: put together to make a whole
- **difference**: the answer when you subtract one number from another

Curriculum link: [Guiding question](https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/29843), [Outcome](https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/29844), [Details](https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/29846)

[Listen to the narration](https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/api/generate/811c43ff-6220-4b14-ac74-eee9e87b11ac/asset/1993)

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*AILI audio story · language en · model claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 · generated 2026-09-17 · id 811c43ff-6220-4b14-ac74-eee9e87b11ac*

### Sources

- node:n1: Number: Quantity is measured with numbers that enable counting, labelling, comparing, and operating. (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/29733)
- node:n2: How can addition and subtraction provide perspectives of number? (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/29756)
- node:n3: Students examine addition and subtraction within 20. (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/29757)
- node:n4: Details (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/29759)
- node:n5: Number: Quantity is measured with numbers that enable counting, labelling, comparing, and operating. (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/29820)
- node:n6: How can addition and subtraction be interpreted? (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/29843)
- node:n7: Students investigate addition and subtraction within 100. (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/29844)
- node:n8: Details (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/29846)
- node:n9: Number: Quantity is measured with numbers that enable counting, labelling, comparing, and operating. (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/29915)
- node:n10: How can processes be established for addition and subtraction? (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/29922)
- node:n11: Students apply strategies for addition and subtraction within 1000. (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/29923)
- node:n12: Details (https://goa-cc-uat-aili-app-001.azurewebsites.net/explore/node/29925)