Pam  0:00  
Hey, fellow math-ers! Welcome to the podcast where Math is Figure-Out-Able. I'm Pam Harris.

Kim  0:07  
And I'm Kim Montague.

Pam  0:08  
And this episode is a 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  0:21  
Okay, this Wednesday, our math problem was 44 times 16. How would you solve this problem? Pause the podcast, solve it however you'd like, and then come on back to hear what we're thinking about. The problem is 44 times 16.

Pam  0:35  
Kim, none of these problems have fives in them, which is making me slightly... There's no 5 in 44 and 16. It's alright.

Kim  0:44  
Do you like 5?

Pam  0:45  
I mean, if I'm going to flexibility factor, which is where my head is.

Kim  0:45  
Yeah.

Pam  0:45  
Then I like to pull out a 5 and a 2 because then I get a 10, and I can just kind of ignore those until I scale by 10. 

Kim  0:48  
Yeah.

Pam  0:49  
But, it's all good. Oh, I know what I'm going to do.

Kim  0:52  
Maybe this is an opportunity to build other relationships. Okay.

Pam  1:04  
Yes, ma'am.

Kim  1:05  
You want to go first or you want me to?

Pam  1:11  
I can go first. 

Kim  1:12  
Okay.

Pam  1:12  
Alright, so I'm thinking about 16s.

Kim  1:14  
Okay.

Pam  1:14  
And I'm going to find half of 16. Bear with me on this. I'm on a ratio table. So, half of 16 is 8, which also means 50 times 16 is going to be times 100, so that's going to be 800. Oh, that was maybe... This might not have been the best strategy ever. Which also means 5 times 16 is 80. Because I don't actually know that, but it's getting there. I'm doing it more often. So, now I have fifty 16s and five 16s. So, fourty-five 16s is 800 minus 80, which is 720. But I only need fourty-four 16s. So, 720 minus 16 is 7-0h-4.

Kim  1:53  
Okay.

Pam  1:55  
704. I shouldn't say the "Oh". 704. 7... Yeah, 704.

Kim  1:59  
Layman's terms. 

Pam  2:01  
Yeah.

Kim  2:03  
Okay.

Pam  2:03  
It was fine. That's not my favorite strategy.

Kim  2:08  
Well, it's interesting because sometimes I've seen you do like 2 times 16, 4 times 16, 40 times 16. It's pretty partially, so I can see why you wouldn't maybe want to do that.

Pam  2:21  
I haven't thought of that one in a minute. Huh.

Kim  2:23  
Okay, yeah. Alright, because we talked about flexible factors, I was thinking about the 44 just screams 4 times 11 for me. And at first I was thinking 2 times 8, but then I thought 16 could be 4 times 4. 

Pam  2:38  
Okay. 

Kim  2:39  
And so, I have 4 times 11 times 4 times 4.

Pam  2:44  
Tell me you did 4^3 times...

Kim  2:46  
I did! So, I know 4^3 is 64 times 11. And so, then it just became 64 times 10, 64 times 1. And I got the 704 as well.

Pam  2:57  
Nice. I like it!

Kim  2:58  
I may not know a lot of cubes, but I know that one.

Pam  3:01  
Sweet! And you could have figured it out not too bad. I like it. 

Kim  3:05  
Alright, 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 while you're there, comment on each other's strategies. 

Pam  3:10  
We love it when you comment on each other strategies. Y'all, we post the problems on Wednesdays around 7:00 p.m. Central. And when you answer, tag me and use the hashtag MathStratChat. Then join us here to hear how we're thinking about the problem. We love having you as part of the Math is Figure-Out-Able movement. Math is Figure-Out-Able!