A basketball player scored 9 points in two games. What could her scores in each of the games be? This question helps children think about a problem for which there’s a range of possible answers. For young children, decomposing numbers within 10 is an important reasoning strategy. There are ten possible answers, for whether the players scored 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9 points in Game 1. Changing the number of points is a way to tailor the question for individual needs.