Beginning, Middle and End. We have been exploring math stories with beginnings, middles and ends too. Students are using cubes and part, part, whole mats to help them understand the stories. The students are also using Beginning, Middle and End boxes to help them write number sentences that match the story. They are now tackling trickier stories where there is an unknown change in the middle of the story. As one student said today, " First grade math is hard!"