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Choosing Your Strategy
You now have three addition strategies: doubles, near doubles, and make-a-ten. How do you choose? If both numbers are the same, use doubles. If they are 1 apart, use near doubles. If one number is close to 10 (like 7, 8, or 9), use make-a-ten. All three strategies give the same answer β pick the one that feels fastest!