Bill Roper (billroper) wrote,
Bill Roper
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Mathematical Intuition

I was impressed by Katie the other night. She was in here with me and starting working on her multiplication tables while I was looking something up on the computer. She wrote down a great number of "8 times X" examples, then tore off a corner of the paper and wrote down:

"anything x 5 = half the number. Katie :)"

Yup, you got it, girl. :)
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