I’ve realized from this thread that I have a weird way of reading multiplication that feels very antiquated. I have nothing to add to your comment or the conversation, I just felt like it fits a bit here, where you referenced the antiquated “score” counting.
In my head, I don’t read that as “four times twenty plus ten” it’s “four by twenty plus ten”
I have no idea where that came from, and I need to ask family members if they do it too
I mean multiplication comes from the the area of a rectangle. A rectangle that is 4 by 4 has an area of 16, in other words 4 by 4 is 16. In hungarian for example thats by far the most common way of saying it. Also “4 multiplied by 4”, you can easily see how multiplied could be dropped to result in “4 by 4”.
how to say 87
most Americans: 80+7
Abraham Lincoln: 4×20+7
I’ve realized from this thread that I have a weird way of reading multiplication that feels very antiquated. I have nothing to add to your comment or the conversation, I just felt like it fits a bit here, where you referenced the antiquated “score” counting.
In my head, I don’t read that as “four times twenty plus ten” it’s “four by twenty plus ten”
I have no idea where that came from, and I need to ask family members if they do it too
I mean multiplication comes from the the area of a rectangle. A rectangle that is 4 by 4 has an area of 16, in other words 4 by 4 is 16. In hungarian for example thats by far the most common way of saying it. Also “4 multiplied by 4”, you can easily see how multiplied could be dropped to result in “4 by 4”.