Pam  0:01  
Hey, fellow mathers. Welcome to the podcast where Math is Figure-Out-Able. I'm Pam Harris.

Kim  0:07  
And I'm Kim Mongtague.

Pam  0:08  
And this is a MathStratChat episode where we chat about our math strategies. Kim, I have tell you, the other day somebody was like, "You know, your math trap... Your strat. That trap strat thing." It was hilarious. I'm like, "We can't say it either. MathStratChat." Every Wednesday evening, I throw out a math problem on social media, and people from around the world chat--that's where the chat comes from--about the strategies--strat--they use and comment on each other's thinking.

Kim  0:35  
About math. Alright, this Wednesday, the MathStratChat problem is 4 and 96/100, 4.96, plus 9 and 38/100, 9.38. 4.96 plus 9.38. How would you like to solve this problem? Pause, take time to solve the problem yourself, and then come on back.

Pam  1:00  
Okay, I wanted to go first this time. 

Kim  1:02  
Okay. Okay, you do it.

Pam  1:05  
I'm channeling Kim. Channeling Kim. So, I'm going to do some place value swapping.

Kim  1:13  
Okay.

Pam  1:13  
I'm going to take the $0.90 out of the $4.96, and I'm going to swap it with the 30 cents in the $9.38.

Kim  1:21  
Mmhm.

Pam  1:22  
So, I'm going to end up with $4.36 plus $9.98. And then I'm going to Give and Take a little bit to make $10.00 and grab $0.02 and make that $4.34. $10.00 plus $4.34 is $14.34. or 4 and 34/100. Or, sorry, 14 and 34/100, or 14.34.

Kim  1:47  
All the words.

Pam  1:48  
Beat that one, Kim!

Kim  1:53  
I have a quote on my computer that says, "There's no such thing as competition. There's only collegial collaboration."

Pam  2:01  
What! That is so blatantly false!

Pam  2:05  
There's such a thing as competition! That's alright. I believe in competition. I just believe that you don't have to compete if you don't want to. So, if you don't want to compete, okay, then we can collegally, whatever you just said, collaborate.

Kim  2:17  
Maybe I wrote that quote because I needed to remind by myself that not everybody likes
competition.

Pam  2:22  
Ah. Because I kind of feel like you and I are a little competitive, just a little.

Kim  2:26  
I'm competitive about some things really much and not others. Okay, back to the problem. 4.96 plus 9.38. I did Give and Take. You did some Give and Take somewhere in there. I did some Give and Take from the beginning, and so I took $0.04, gave it to the 4.96. So, my new problem is 5 and basically $9.34. So, I got the same $14.34.

Pam  2:54  
Man, you did beat that! Ugh! Well done. I like yours better. Fine.

Kim  3:00  
But you did swapping, and I love that because I do like to use swapping. It's not one of the major strategies, but it's one of my favorites. 

Pam  3:07  
It can be pretty cool. Alright, y'all. We can't wait to see what you do each week. Join us on MathStratChat and let us know how you think about the problems. And please comment on each other's strategies because it makes everybody like feel cool when people notice what they're doing.

Kim  3:19  
Yeah. Pam, posts the problems on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. Central. When you answer, tag her and use the hashtag MathStratChat. Then join us here to hear how we're thinking about the problem.

Pam Harris  3:31  
We love having you as part of the Math is Figure-Out-Able movement. Math is Figure-Out-Able!