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Muitiply

 

 

An easy way to think about multiplication or timesing something
is it's just a simple way of doing addition over and over again.

 

So that you means is, and it's a little tricky.
You're not going to add 2 to 3.
You're going to add-and there's actually two ways to think about it.
You're going to add 2 to itself three times.
Now what does that mean?
Well, it means you're going to say 2 plus 2plus 2.
Now where did the 3 go?
Well, how many 2's do we have here?
Let's see, i have-this is one 2, i have two 2's, i have three 2's.
I'm counting the numbers here the same way that i counted blueberries up here.
I had 1, 2, 3 blueberries. 

I have one, two, three 2's.
So this three tells me haw many 2's i'm going to have.
So what's 2 times 3?
Well, i toook 2 and i added to itself three times.
So 2 plus 2 is 4. 4 plus 2 is equal to 6.
Now that's only one way to think about it.
The other way we could have thought about this we could've said, instead of having 2 added to itself three times,
We could've added 3 to itself two times.
And i know it's maybe becoming a little bit confusing, but the more pratice you do it'll make a little sense.
So this statement up here, let me rewrite it.

 

 

 

2 times 3.
it couls also be written as 3 two times.

So 3 plus 3.