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Ep 109: Multiplying By One Tenth

Math is Figure-Out-Able!

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Do You Know How to Multiply a Number?

When i can get her to talk to me about what's going on in her head as she does math, i begin to realize that she does what you do. Umnndand so it's not this mindless, like, move over three places because the decimal has moved over three places in the problem, or whatever. But if she was doing 400 times 17, kam, this is what i find interesting,. She would literally say, um, four to forty, so that's 68 to six 80. Four forty to 400, that's 680 to six thousand, 800. It's one ho up. This time we wanit len, one shione at a time, one

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