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Single Digit Addition with Carrying 210 Views
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Description:
Hemingway was great with words, but not so great with numbers. Thankfully, he had his cats to help teach him math. Stick with us instead; we don't scratch like cats with 16 toes. (Does anything?)
Transcript
- 00:03
single-digit addition with carrying a la shmoop [Man and woman carrying a bag of weeds]
- 00:06
the famous writer Ernest Hemingway loved cats particularly cats born with extra
- 00:10
toes it was thought that cats with extra toes brought good luck so people like to
- 00:14
keep them around plus they could catch twice as many mice at one time Hemingway [Cat pounces on a mouse in a field]
- 00:20
who's a little better with words than he is with numbers need some help figuring
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- 00:23
out how many toes his favorite cat has the cat has nine toes on his left paw [Cat lifts up left paw]
- 00:28
and seven toes on his right paw we don't have enough fingers to count that high
- 00:33
but luckily we can use the cat's digits we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and then and
- 00:40
11 12 13 14 15 16 toes while 9 and 7 have only one number or digit they make
- 00:48
a two digit number when we add them together 16 this means that when we
- 00:53
added these numbers their sum was more than 10 making room for a second digit [Addition calculation appears]
- 00:57
in the tens place which is 1 in 16 that one was carried over into the tens place
- 01:02
while the 6 remained behind in the ones place giving us a total of yep, 16....
- 01:08
carrying number to the tens place is going to become more important later [Teacher discussing addition to students]
- 01:11
when we start adding two-digit numbers but for now at least Hemingway has his
- 01:15
answer it's a shame he's so bad with numbers because when people ask him how
- 01:19
many copies of Old Man and the sea he's sold
- 01:21
he just says more than 5 [Girl asks Hemingway how many books he's sold]
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