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We can help Wilson and his friends by adding 500 and 200! Can you stack the addends?

Now that the addends are stacked, let’s add a plus sign and a line.

Did you notice that both digits in the ones and tens places are zeros? We can ignore these digits by crossing them out. Let’s try it!

Perfect! Now add the digits in the hundreds place. What is 5 + 2?

Since we already know that 0 + 0 = 0, add zeros to the sum.

Wow, that was so fast! The sum of 500 + 200 = 700. Let’s check our work on a thousand chart. A thousand chart lists numbers from 10 to 1,000 in multiples of ten.

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We are correct! 500 + 200 = 700.