Learning to Add and Subtract

Learning to Add and Subtract is a 1987 Sesame Street direct-to-video compilation in the "My Sesame Street Home Video" series.
==Segments==
Image	Segment	Description
 	FRAME 1	Big Bird welcomes the viewer and explains that he must learn to add and subtract very quickly. He has set up four spoons in groups of two, but he can't add them together. Maria comes by to help and helps him count them together - in other words, adding them.
 	Muppets	Ernie, Bert and Shola count fingers.
 	FRAME 2	Big Bird is able to add the spoons on his own, but panics when Maria wants him to add up five cookies. Maria explains that adding works the same no matter what you're adding.
 	Cartoon	A mother bird adds her eggs that hatch.
 	FRAME 3	Once again, Big Bird adds the cookies on his own. Maria now has him add 13 crayons, explaining to a flustered Big Bird that it's still the same as adding spoons and cookies. He is amazed at how many things one can add.
 	Cartoon	A cowboy adds two different herds of cows.
 	Muppets	Bruce Stringbean, Clarice and S Street Band perform "Born To Add."
 	FRAME 4	Just when Big Bird thinks he's done, he realizes he needs to learn how to subtract also. He calls for Maria, who helps him take away two bananas from six - also known as subracting them.
 	Cartoon	"Five Bears in the Bed" get subtracted as they fall off the bed.
 	Muppets	Ernie has a stack of seven cupcakes that he wants to take a picture of, but Cookie Monster keeps stealing cupcakes (which he calls "cuppycakes").
‎ 	FRAME 5	Big Bird demonstrates his subtraction skills by subtracting the bananas on his own. Maria brings five of Bert's bottlecaps for him to subtract and explains that like adding, it doesn't matter what you subtract.
 	Cartoon	King Minus
 	Muppets	Cookie Monster sings "They Can't Take That Away from Me."
 	Cartoon	11 gumballs minus 4 equals 7.
 	FRAME 6	Big Bird reveals to Maria that he needed to learn all the addition and subtraction because he's giving Elmo the same lesson. Elmo arrives, and Big Bird is able to relay the same expert advice to Elmo - even the fact that at one time, he didn't know how to add and subtract himself!
==Releases==
Image:Origaddvhs.jpg|Random House Home Video88938
Image:Noimage-big.png|Random House Home Video88989ISBN 0394889894
Image:Video.addsubtract.jpg|Random House Home Video88938Reissue cover (1992)
Image:D9ed017b42a06ab5226ef110.L. AA280 .jpg|The Video Collection1987Double feature with Learning About Numbers
Image:21d7f96642a0f8e9c158c110.L. AA280 .jpg|The Video Collection1991Double feature with Learning About Numbers
Learningtoaddandsubtractasianvcd.jpg|Berjaya HVN1998 cat. no 934005
Addsubtractvidjp.jpg|Sony
Learningaddsubtract Taiwan VHS.jpg|Ladder Publishing
==Booklet==
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==Cast==
*Starring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets:
**with Caroll Spinney as Big Bird
**Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Kevin Clash, Fran Brill, Pam Arciero, David Rudman
*Sonia Manzano as Maria
==Credits==
*Executive Producer: Jon Stone
*Directed by Jon Stone, Bob Myhrum (archive material)
*Writers: Jon Stone, Cathi Rosenberg
**Emily Kingsley, Jeffrey Moss, Ray Sipherd, Norman Stiles (archive material)
*Songs by Chris Cerf, Sarah Durkee, Emily Kingsley, Jeffrey Moss, Joe Raposo
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Category:Sesame Street Video
Category:Numbers