Childrens math riddle

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I'm a private math tutor for children, and one of my students showed me this riddle his teacher gave him. There is no explanation as to what you need to do. I'm extremely obsessed with figuring it out at this point. Translation: matematik=mathematics, tal=number, første=first, anden=second, tredje=third. Im thinking it simply is finding the sum of the colors corresponding numbers, so the answer is "1st number=32, 2nd number=40, 3rd number=40". Any thoughts?