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Standards:

2.2.1.A: Apply concepts of addition and subtraction to 

solve problems up to ten.

2.6.1.B: Organize and display data using pictures, tallies, 

charts, bar graphs and pictographs.

    It was a bright, sunny autumn day. The Martin family had 

just woken up and was sitting down to eat breakfast. Just 

as Nancy was getting ready to take a big bit of her pancake, 

she remembered something very important. “We need to 

make apple pies!” exclaimed Nancy. Nancy had signed up to 

make three apple pies for her class’s bake sale on Monday. 

       “Oh that’s right,” said Mrs. Martin. “Today would be a 

great day to go to the orchard and pick some apples!” 

     “That would be great!” chimed Tommy. The family 

finished breakfast quickly and got ready to go to the 

orchard. 

     When they arrived, Mrs. Martin explained what they 

had to find at the orchard. 

     “We need to bake three pies for Nancy’s class. I 

want to make one pie with red apples, one pie with 

yellow apples, and one pie with green apples. We need 

six apples to make each pie. How many apples will we 

need altogether to make our pies?” 

     “Let’s see,” said Tommy. We need one pie of each 

color, and each pie needs to have six apples. We can 

show how many apples we will need by pretending to 

make the pies!” 

     Tommy began making groups of apples to see how 

many he would need of each color. He gathered six red 

apples and put them in a group to make a pie. He wasn’t 

done yet! He gathered the green apples and yellow 

apples, too. 

“We need six of each color apple to make the pies, so 

that’s eighteen apples altogether!” exclaimed Tommy. 

      The Martin family each went off in different 

directions to find their apples. Tommy went to find 

red apples. Mrs. Martin went to find green apples. 

Mr. Martin and Nancy went to find yellow apples. 

     When they got back, they were surprised to see 

how many apples they had! Everyone had picked a full 

basket of apples.

    “We won’t need this many apples for our pies!” 

remarked Nancy. 

    “You’re right,” responded Mrs. Martin. “Let’s 

count and see how many apples we have in each basket.” 

     “All of these apples are so hard to keep track of,” 

complained Tommy. “Maybe we should make a graph 

that shows how many of each kind of apple we have.” 

     The Martin family thought this was a wonderful 

idea! When they counted their apples, they found that 

there were nine red apples, seven yellow apples, and 

ten green apples. They had more than enough for their 

pies!

    The Martin family combined all of their apples 

into one big basket to carry back to the car. As they 

were gathering their things, Nancy tripped and knocked 

over the basket! The apples rolled down the hill of the 

orchard hitting all sorts of bumps along the way. 

      The Martin family rushed to pick up the apples as 

fast as they could, but when Tommy looked at the 

apples he saw that some of them were ruined! “Look,” 

said Tommy, “they look all brown and mushy. The must 

have gotten bruised.” 

      “That’s not good,” stated Mrs. Martin. “We can’t 

use the apples with lots of bruises. We have to take out 

the apples that feel soft. Let’s look and see how many 

apples are still good to use.” 

      The family sorted through the apples to see which 

ones would be good to use. When they had finished 

their counting, they found that only five red apples, 

three green apples, and four yellow apples were good to 

use. Tommy changed his graph to see how many of each 

apple they had. 

     “Well this is no good!” exclaimed Nancy. “Now we 

need to find more apples for our pies! How many more 

of each apple color do we need?” 

     Mrs. Martin examined their graph. “Let’s see, if we 

have five red apples and we need six for our pie, how 

many more do we need to pick?” 

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