Pam  0:00  
Hey, fellow mathers! Welcome to this cool podcast where Math is figure-out-able. I'm Pam. 

Kim  0:07  
And I'm Kim.

Pam  0:08  
And this is our MathStratChat episode, where we chat about our math strategies. Every Wednesday evening, I throw out a math problem on social media. People from around the world chat about the strategies they use and comment on each other's thinking.

Kim  0:20  
Okay, so this Wednesday, the problem was 150 times 24. Go ahead and solve the problem anyway you'd like and come on back to hear how we are going to solve the problem. It's 150 times 24.

Pam  0:35  
Alright.

Kim  0:35  
Yeah. What

Kim  0:36  
you want to do?

Pam  0:38  
Um. Several things. 

Kim  0:40  
I know! It's a

Kim  0:41  
good problem. It's really rich.

Pam  0:43  
Right, you want to pick one?

Pam and Kim  0:44  
Um. 

Kim  0:44  
You want me to go first?

Pam  0:47  
Yeah, you do one, then I'll do one, then you can do one, then I'll do

Pam  0:51  
one. 

Kim  0:51  
Oh, are we supposed to do that? Steal all the thinking. 

Pam  0:54  
We're going to. 

Kim  0:54  
Okay, I wrote down... 

Pam  0:56  
Oh, you don't want to

Pam  0:57  
steal all the thinking. Well, alright, do one. 

Pam and Kim  1:00  
Okay.

Kim  1:02  
Alright, I did something similar to what I did last week. I wrote down 150 times 4 times 6. So, I split up the 24 into 4 and 6. And I did that because I like 150 times 4 is 600. And 600 times 6

Kim  1:21  
is 3600.

Pam  1:23  
Wow. I would not have done that. Nice. 

Kim  1:27  
What did you do? 

Pam  1:29  
I thought you were going to do 150 times 2.

Kim  1:31  
Oh, because I did say it was like I did last week. 

Pam  1:31  
That's okay. 

Kim  1:31  
The strategy. Not the (unclear). 

Pam  1:31  
So,

Pam  1:32  
150 times 2 is 300. And 24 divided by 2 is 12. And 300 times 12 is like 3 times 12, which is 36. Times 100, which is 3600.

Kim  1:46  
Yeah, nice.

Pam  1:46  
Yeah. But can I just mention one other? 

Kim  1:49  
You

Kim  1:50  
get one more, one more. 

Pam  1:52  
You should have seen

Pam  1:53  
the look Kim just gave me. It's like patting a small child

Pam  1:56  
on the head.

Kim  1:57  
Did we tell people we see each other

Kim  1:58  
now? 

Pam  1:59  
Oh, we're not recording visually yet, but we're practicing recording. Which it seems, right now, my head is like off the screen, and I'm like in the corner of the...

Kim  2:09  
I know, we're going to have to work on that.

Pam  2:10  
Totally have to work on that. I think another fun one or one that I would want to have occur to people would be 1.5 or one and a half 24s. 

Kim  2:18  
Yeah.

Pam  2:18  
So, instead of 150, think about 1.5. So, one 24 is 24, plus a half a 24 is 12, and 24 plus 12 is 36.

Kim  2:27  
Mmhm.

Pam  2:27  
But then I would need to scale that up times 100 because 1.5 is 100 divided by 100 to get... Yeah, it's 100. I can't say times less 100. It's a hundredth of. 1.5 is a hundredth of 150. Yeah.

Kim  2:40  
Playing with

Kim  2:41  
math is fun. Alright.

Pam  2:42  
Indeed.

Kim  2:43  
We can't wait to see what you do every week. Join us on MathStratChat and let us know how you think about the problems and comment on each other's strategies.

Pam  2:51  
Y'all, we post the problems on Wednesdays around 7:00 p.m. Central. When you answer, tag me and use the hashtag MathStratChat. Then join us here to hear how we're thinking about the problem. Y'all, we love having you as part of the Math is Figure-Out-Able movement. Math is Figure-out-able!