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Hemingway was great with words, but not so great with numbers. Thankfully, he had his cats to help teach him math. Stick with us instead; we don't scratch like cats with 16 toes. (Does anything?)

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00:03

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

00:06

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

00:10

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

00:14

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

00:20

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

00:23

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

00:28

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

00:33

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

00:40

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

00:48

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

00:53

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

00:57

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

01:02

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

01:08

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

01:11

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

01:15

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

01:19

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

01:21

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

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