Faster Arithmetic Methods
Warm-Up!
Try these problems before watching the lesson.
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1. What is 40% 24 0.8 ?
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2. What is the value of 1 × 12 + 2 × 11 + 3 × 10 + 4 × 9 + 5 × 8 + 6 × 7 + 7 × 6 + 8 × 5 +
9 × 4 + 10 × 3 + 11 × 2 + 12 × 1?
3. Mac has 25 marbles, of which 20% are red. Thayer has 20 marbles, of which 75% are not red.
What is the absolute difference between the numbers of red marbles they have?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
4. What is the value of the sum + + + + + + + ?
9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
5. What is the value of the sum 0.49 + 0.53 + 0.55 + 0.47 + 0.48? Express your answer as a deci-
mal to the nearest hundredth.
The Problems
Take a look at the following problems and follow along as they are explained in the video.
1 2 3 4 84 85 86
6. What is the value of the sum + + + + + + + ?
87 87 87 87 87 87 87
7. What is the value of 1 × 9 + 2 × 99 + 3 × 999 + 4 × 9999 + 5 × 99999?
8. What is the value of 55 × 33 – 15?
Piece It Together
Use the skills you practiced in the warm-up and strategies from the video to solve the following problems.
9. What is 12 × 37 + 12 × 7 + 12 × 6?
10. What is the value of 2 × 63 + 62 − 7 × 62?
11. Audra adds the numbers 2018 and 22, then multiplies the result by 2 and assigns this value to a.
Beto multiplies the numbers 2018 and 2, then adds 22 to the result and assigns this value to b.
What is the value of a − b?
12. What is the value of (1 + 3 + 5 + … + 2017) − (2 + 4 + 6 + … + 2016)?
13. What is the greatest prime factor of 37 − 27?
Optional Extension
To extend your understanding and have a little fun with math, try the following activities.
Option 1
When asked to multiply two multi-digit numbers without a calculator, many people instinctively com-
pute the value using the standard algorithm—multiplying each digit from one number by each digit from
the other number, systematically, and adding up the products. For example:
34
×12
68
+340
3780
Can you explain or prove, using properties of multiplication, why this algorithm works? Can you write
a general statement or proof for multiplying two arbitrary two-digit numbers AB and CD where A, B, C
and D represent digits and A and C are not zero?
Option 2
Using factoring, find the value of the following expression:
2017 2 11(2017) 42
2014