X.1

Operation Orchard

Each picture-story is really one of + − × ÷ — steer the wind to grow it into the plant whose shape matches the story, then plant it. Choose the operation, not the answer!

🎯 Grow every story into the plant that models its situation — combine → +, take away → −, equal groups → ×, share → ÷ — until the whole orchard blooms.

You never work out the answer — you just decide which operation the story is. Combine two piles is +, take some away or ask how many more is , equal groups of the same size is ×, and share out fairly is ÷. Slide the wind to preview each plant; plant the one whose shape tells the same story.

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