Summary
A sly pool-shark cat teaches the nines, leaning into the neat finger trick and the patterns hiding in the nine times table.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
A sly pool-shark cat teaches the nines, leaning into the neat finger trick and the patterns hiding in the nine times table..
- What pattern do the digits of the nines make?
- Do the two digits of a nines answer add up to nine? Check a few.
- What finger trick helps with the nines?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: multiply, pattern, digit.
Try it: Write the nines to 90 and add the digits of each answer - what do you notice?