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Old 10-07-2010, 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by meems View Post
fb to the rescue. one of my friends is 4th grade teacher

30x27 + 5x27
60x19+1x19
70x214+3x214

eta: well, wasn't this fun? I now want to eat an entire bag of chocolate chips.
I'm a mathed major and I'm a little confused (but it's been years...) to me, distributive would be like this:

27 (30+5) because then you "distribute" the 27 to the 30 and to the 5... but if that's what another 4th grade teacher said, then I'd go with that!
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