visualizing numbers and how they relate to each other. And then they had, I think the real surprise for me was a grid that they had, which on the x-axis listed some numbers, and on the y-axis listed some numbers. And then in the middle, you were supposed to fill them out with the sum of the numbers that intersected the x and the y numbers. So maybe there was like an eight and a five, and so you're supposed to add that up and write down 13. And that to me was a little bit of a revelation that you could ideally train your mind to think of numbers sort of differently. Like, I think a good number of people essentially still count on their fingers to add basic numbers, like eight and five and so on, because that's what we were taught. And so seeing it in a grid and realizing you could treat addition, at least, well, I guess you could, yeah, you could treat addition as you treated, as you may have treated multiplication. Because I feel like in school multiplication tables were always a (40/54)
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