you have 17 marbles you have four more than I do how many do I have you have 17 you have four more than I do how many do I have Turkey yes Patrick salsa compares smaller unknown problem by Counting or in fact subitizing three times you have 17 you have four more than I do how many do I have he uses the arithmetic rack to subitize 17 pushing over a ten and a seven at once he then moves away for beads from the seven and looks answering thirteen yes Patrick makes use the structure of the arithmetic rack to model 17 quickly remove four and subitize the remaining amount he is not following the structure of the problem by matching two sets instead he models it as removal of one part from the whole to find the remaining part we can infer his deepening understanding of the part hole relationship of addition and subtraction in that he uses one set to model the full problem you