{"version":"1.0.0","segments":[{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":1.29,"endTime":4.47,"body":"Hey, fellow mathematicians!"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":1.29,"endTime":4.47,"body":"Welcome to the podcast where"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":4.47,"endTime":7.62,"body":"Math is Figure-Out-Able. I'm Pam"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":4.47,"endTime":7.62,"body":"Harris."},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":7.77,"endTime":8.67,"body":"And I'm Kim Montague."},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":8.96,"endTime":12.92,"body":"And this episode is a"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":8.96,"endTime":12.92,"body":"MathStratChat episode. What is"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":12.95,"endTime":16.19,"body":"MathStratChat? Every Wednesday"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":12.95,"endTime":16.19,"body":"evening, I throw out a math"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":16.19,"endTime":18.8,"body":"problem on Twitter, Facebook,"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":16.19,"endTime":18.8,"body":"Instagram, all the social media."},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":19.07,"endTime":22.19,"body":"People from around the world"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":19.07,"endTime":22.19,"body":"chat about the strategies they"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":22.19,"endTime":24.95,"body":"use. It is super fun to see"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":22.19,"endTime":24.95,"body":"everyone's thinking."},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":25.1,"endTime":27.62,"body":"Okay, so this Wednesday,"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":25.1,"endTime":27.62,"body":"our math problem was"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":27.68,"endTime":31.31,"body":"three-tenths plus one-fourth."},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":27.68,"endTime":31.31,"body":"How would you solve this"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":31.31,"endTime":34.16,"body":"problem? You can pause the"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":31.31,"endTime":34.16,"body":"podcast, solve the problem any"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":34.16,"endTime":37.67,"body":"way you want. Remember, the"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":34.16,"endTime":37.67,"body":"problem is three-tenths plus"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":37.7,"endTime":40.76,"body":"one-fourth. Solve it, and then"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":37.7,"endTime":40.76,"body":"come on back to hear how we"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":40.76,"endTime":41.33,"body":"solved it."},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":42.62,"endTime":46.97,"body":"Alright. So, Kim, we got a"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":42.62,"endTime":46.97,"body":"question here, three-tenths plus"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":47.03,"endTime":50.09,"body":"one-fourth. I'm super curious"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":47.03,"endTime":50.09,"body":"how you would solve it."},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":50.93,"endTime":55.73,"body":"So, you know, I do love the"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":50.93,"endTime":55.73,"body":"percents, so when I see"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":55.85,"endTime":63.44,"body":"three-tenths, I think about 30%."},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":55.85,"endTime":63.44,"body":"And then, one-fourth is 25%. So,"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":63.44,"endTime":64.01,"body":"I just thought..."},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":64.01,"endTime":65.6,"body":"You are very percent"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":64.01,"endTime":65.6,"body":"person, aren't you."},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":65.6,"endTime":66.65,"body":"I am. I do like percents."},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":66.74,"endTime":66.86,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":66.86,"endTime":71.6,"body":"So, 30% and 25% is 55%."},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":73.31,"endTime":78.56,"body":"So, in my head, I just kind of"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":73.31,"endTime":78.56,"body":"left it at 55%. So, that's the"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":78.56,"endTime":84.77,"body":"same as 55 out of 100. But would"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":78.56,"endTime":84.77,"body":"you like me to simplify that?"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":85.97,"endTime":88.91,"body":"This is a whole debate on do you"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":85.97,"endTime":88.91,"body":"have to simplify or not, but."},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":88.97,"endTime":91.55,"body":"It really is. Yeah. I will"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":88.97,"endTime":91.55,"body":"say we don't like the word"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":91.58,"endTime":95.66,"body":"\"reduce\". So, thank you for"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":91.58,"endTime":95.66,"body":"saying \"simplify\". I mean, maybe"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":95.66,"endTime":98.42,"body":"tell -so, maybe we could just"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":95.66,"endTime":98.42,"body":"acknowledge, we don't think you"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":98.42,"endTime":103.37,"body":"have to. But if you wanted to,"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":98.42,"endTime":103.37,"body":"what would you simplify that to?"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":103.0,"endTime":108.19,"body":"So, interestingly, at that"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":103.0,"endTime":108.19,"body":"point, I thought about nickels."},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":108.82,"endTime":109.27,"body":"Sure."},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":109.69,"endTime":111.67,"body":"I'm kind of all over the"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":109.69,"endTime":111.67,"body":"place. So, then, I thought"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":111.67,"endTime":119.65,"body":"about, there's 20 nickels in"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":111.67,"endTime":119.65,"body":"$1.00. And there are 11 nickels"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":119.65,"endTime":124.57,"body":"in $0.55. So, then, it would be"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":119.65,"endTime":124.57,"body":"eleven-twentieths."},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":125.47,"endTime":128.14,"body":"Nice. How many nickels are"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":125.47,"endTime":128.14,"body":"in $0.55? How many nickels..."},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":128.38,"endTime":131.86,"body":"And I have to tell you, when I"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":128.38,"endTime":131.86,"body":"do that with nickels, I have to"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":131.86,"endTime":134.41,"body":"think about how many, I actually"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":131.86,"endTime":134.41,"body":"thought you were going to this"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":134.41,"endTime":136.96,"body":"way, when you said there's 20"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":134.41,"endTime":136.96,"body":"nickels in $1.00, I thought"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":136.96,"endTime":141.07,"body":"you're going to say, \"Therefore,"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":136.96,"endTime":141.07,"body":"there's 10 nickels in $0.50, so"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":141.07,"endTime":145.24,"body":"there's 11 nickels in $0.55.\""},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":141.07,"endTime":145.24,"body":"When I think \"nickels\", I have"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":145.24,"endTime":148.93,"body":"to think about some benchmark"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":145.24,"endTime":148.93,"body":"numbers of nickels. Even though"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":148.93,"endTime":150.79,"body":"now I'm laughing at myself a"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":148.93,"endTime":150.79,"body":"little bit because I could have"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":150.79,"endTime":153.88,"body":"thought about 5 times 11 as 55."},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":153.94,"endTime":156.97,"body":"(unclear) nice, though."},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":153.94,"endTime":156.97,"body":"Yeah, that's nice."},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":157.39,"endTime":158.44,"body":"Yeah, it was nice."},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":157.39,"endTime":158.44,"body":"(unclear)."},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":158.0,"endTime":159.11,"body":"Alright, what would you do?"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":159.78,"endTime":163.17,"body":"Okay, so I was thinking"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":159.78,"endTime":163.17,"body":"money. So, I was thinking... You"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":163.17,"endTime":164.7,"body":"thought money at the end. I"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":163.17,"endTime":164.7,"body":"thought money at the beginning."},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":165.18,"endTime":169.74,"body":"3 out of 10 just screams at me 3"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":165.18,"endTime":169.74,"body":"dimes. So, I'm sort of thinking"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":169.74,"endTime":174.21,"body":"about 3 dimes. But then when I"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":169.74,"endTime":174.21,"body":"hit the 1 quarter, I thought to"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":174.21,"endTime":178.11,"body":"myself, \"Well, that's like"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":174.21,"endTime":178.11,"body":"$0.25.\" Which if I thought of"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":178.11,"endTime":183.54,"body":"that in dimes, that's 2 and a"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":178.11,"endTime":183.54,"body":"1/2 dimes. So, I literally wrote"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":183.54,"endTime":189.51,"body":"down 3 out of 10 plus 2.5 out of"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":183.54,"endTime":189.51,"body":"10 would be 5.5 out of 10 or 5"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":189.51,"endTime":194.82,"body":"and a 1/2 dimes. 5 and 1/2 dimes"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":189.51,"endTime":194.82,"body":"is $0.55. But I also can think"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":194.82,"endTime":198.72,"body":"about 5 and a 1/2 dimes in terms"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":194.82,"endTime":198.72,"body":"of nickels because the 5 dimes"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":198.84,"endTime":202.14,"body":"would be 10 nickels, plus that"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":198.84,"endTime":202.14,"body":"extra half a dime is 1 more"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":202.14,"endTime":205.05,"body":"nickel, so that's 11 nickels out"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":202.14,"endTime":205.05,"body":"of 20 nickels (unclear)."},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":204.491,"endTime":205.271,"body":"Nicely done."},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":206.0,"endTime":207.5,"body":"Well, thank you, thank you,"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":206.0,"endTime":207.5,"body":"thank you."},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":207.89,"endTime":207.92,"body":"(unclear)."},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":208.55,"endTime":211.64,"body":"Okay, so we can't wait to see"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":208.55,"endTime":211.64,"body":"your math strategy. I wonder if"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":211.64,"endTime":214.67,"body":"your strategy was like one of"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":211.64,"endTime":214.67,"body":"ours or something entirely"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":214.67,"endTime":217.94,"body":"different. You can represent"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":214.67,"endTime":217.94,"body":"your thinking by taking a"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":217.94,"endTime":220.34,"body":"picture of your work or"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":217.94,"endTime":220.34,"body":"screenshot your phone and tell"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":220.34,"endTime":222.98,"body":"the world on social media. And"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":220.34,"endTime":222.98,"body":"while you're there, check out"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":222.98,"endTime":225.32,"body":"what other people did and"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":222.98,"endTime":225.32,"body":"comment on their thinking as"},{"speaker":"Kim","startTime":225.32,"endTime":225.74,"body":"well."},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":226.08,"endTime":229.23,"body":"Yeah, tag me on Twitter,"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":226.08,"endTime":229.23,"body":"@PWHarris. Or Instagram,"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":229.26,"endTime":233.13,"body":"PamHarris_math And on Facebook,"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":229.26,"endTime":233.13,"body":"Pam Harris, author mathematics"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":233.13,"endTime":237.45,"body":"education. And don't forget to"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":233.13,"endTime":237.45,"body":"use the hashtag MathStratChat."},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":237.72,"endTime":240.27,"body":"And make sure you check out the"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":237.72,"endTime":240.27,"body":"MathStratChat problem that we"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":240.27,"endTime":243.48,"body":"post every Wednesday night. It's"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":240.27,"endTime":243.48,"body":"around 7:00p.m. Central Time,"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":243.72,"endTime":246.9,"body":"and then pop back here to hear"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":243.72,"endTime":246.9,"body":"what we are thinking about the"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":246.9,"endTime":249.6,"body":"problem. We love having you as"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":246.9,"endTime":249.6,"body":"part of the Math is"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":249.63,"endTime":252.15,"body":"Figure-Out-Able movement. Let's"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":249.63,"endTime":252.15,"body":"keep spreading the word that"},{"speaker":"Pam","startTime":252.15,"endTime":253.62,"body":"Math is Figure-Out-Able!"}]}