ShmoopTube

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single-digit addition with carrying a la shmoop [Man and woman carrying a bag of weeds]

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the famous writer Ernest Hemingway loved cats particularly cats born with extra

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toes it was thought that cats with extra toes brought good luck so people like to

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keep them around plus they could catch twice as many mice at one time Hemingway [Cat pounces on a mouse in a field]

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who's a little better with words than he is with numbers need some help figuring

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out how many toes his favorite cat has the cat has nine toes on his left paw [Cat lifts up left paw]

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and seven toes on his right paw we don't have enough fingers to count that high

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but luckily we can use the cat's digits we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and then and

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11 12 13 14 15 16 toes while 9 and 7 have only one number or digit they make

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a two digit number when we add them together 16 this means that when we

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added these numbers their sum was more than 10 making room for a second digit [Addition calculation appears]

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in the tens place which is 1 in 16 that one was carried over into the tens place

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while the 6 remained behind in the ones place giving us a total of yep, 16....

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carrying number to the tens place is going to become more important later [Teacher discussing addition to students]

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when we start adding two-digit numbers but for now at least Hemingway has his

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answer it's a shame he's so bad with numbers because when people ask him how

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many copies of Old Man and the sea he's sold

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he just says more than 5 [Girl asks Hemingway how many books he's sold]

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