I always appreciate the creative approach @MFAnnie takes when facilitating #elementarymathchat. She could give a master class on how to build engagement In Twitter chats.
Let’s act it out. So you start with 2 candies. You said you want to give me 5 candies. How many do you have? Kid- I’d need to get 3 candies from the dish! ( again the beginning of operations with integers)