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Welcome to the presentation on basic addition.

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I know what you're thinking, Sal, addition doesn't

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seem so basic to me.

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Well, I apologize.

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Hopefully by the end of this presentation or in a couple

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of weeks it will seem basic.

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So let's get started with, I guess we could

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say, some problems.

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Well let's say I start with an old classic.

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1 plus 1.

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And I think you already know how to do this, but I'll kind

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of show you a way of doing this in case you don't have this

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memorized or you haven't already mastered this.

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You say, well, if I have 1, let's call that an avocado.

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If I have 1 avocado and then you were to give me

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another avocado, how many avocados do I now have?

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Well, let's see.

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I have 1, 2 avocados.

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So 1 plus 1 is equal to 2.

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Now, I know what you're thinking.

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That was too easy, so let me give you something a

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little bit more difficult.

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I like the avocados.

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I might stick with that theme.

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What is 3 plus 4?

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This is, I think, a more difficult problem.

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Well, let's stick with the avocados.

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And in case you don't know what an avocado is, it's actually

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a very delicious fruit.

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It's actually the fattiest of all the fruits.

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You probably didn't even think it was a fruit,

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even if you ate one.

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Let's say I have 3 avocados-- 1, 2, 3.

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And let's say you were to give me 4 more avocados.

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So let me put this 4 in yellow so you know that these are

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the ones you're giving me.

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1, 2, 3, 4.

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So how many total avocados do I have now?

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That's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 avocados.

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So 3 plus 4 is equal to 7.

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And now I'm going to introduce you to another way of

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thinking about this.

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It's called the number line.

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And actually, I think this is how I do it in my head when I

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forget-- if I don't have it memorized.

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So number line, I just write all the numbers in order.

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And I go high enough just so all the numbers I'm

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using are kind of in it.

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So you know the first number is 0, which is nothing.

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Maybe you don't know, but now you know.

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And then you go to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

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Keeps going-- 11.

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So we're saying 3 plus 4.

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So let's start at 3.

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So I have 3 here and we're going to add 4 to that 3.

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So all we do is we go up the number line, or we go to the

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right on the number line, 4 more.

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So we go 1, 2, 3, 4.

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Notice all we did is we just increased it by one, by

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two, by three, by four.

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And then we ended up at 7.

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And that was our answer.

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We can do a couple of different ones.

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What if I asked you what 8 plus 1 is?

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Well, you might already know it.

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You know, plus 1 is just the next number.

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But if we look at the number line you start

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at 8 and you add 1.

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8 plus 1 is equal to 9.

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Let's do some harder problems.

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And just so you know, if you're a little daunted by this

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initially, you can always draw the circles.

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You can always do the number line.

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And eventually, over time, the more practice you do-- you'll

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hopefully memorize these and you'll do these problems

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in like half a second.

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I promise you.

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You just got to keep practicing.

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I want to draw the number line again, actually, I have a line

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tool, so I should give you all those ugly looking lines

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that I've been giving you.

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Look at that.

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That's amazing.

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Let me see.

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Look at that.

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That's a nice looking line.

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I'm going to feel bad to erase it later on.

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So let me draw a number line.

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0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.

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So let's do a hard problem.

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I'm going to do it in different colors now.

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5 plus 6.

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So if you want, you could pause the video and try this.

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You might already know the answer.

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And the reason why I say this is a hard problem is because

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the answer has more numbers than figures, so you can't

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necessarily do it on your fingers.

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So let's get started with this problem.

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Actually, my phone is ringing, but I'm going to ignore the

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phone because you're more important.

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OK, let's start at the 5.

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So we start at the 5 and we're going to add 6 to it.

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So we go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

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And we're at 11.

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So 5 plus 6 is equal to 11.

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Now I'm going to ask you a question, what is 6 plus 5?

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Well, we're now going to see that.

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Can you switch the two numbers and get the same answer?

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Well, let's try that.

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And I'm going to try it in a different color so we

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don't get all confused.

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So let's start at 6.

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Ignore the yellow for now and add 5 to it.

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1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

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We get to the same place.

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And I think you might want to try this on a bunch of

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problems and you'll see it always works out.

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That it doesn't matter what order-- 5 plus 6 is the

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same thing as 6 plus 5.

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And that makes sense.

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If I have 5 avocados and you give me 6,

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I'm going to have 11.

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If I have 6 avocados and you gave me 5, I'm going

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to have 11 either way.

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Since this number line is so nice, I want to do a few

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more problems using it.

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Although as I use it I'm sure I'll just continue to confuse

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you because I'll write so much on top of it.

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But let's see.

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I'll use white now.

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What is 8 plus 7?

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Well, if you can still read this, 8 is right here.

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We're going to add 7 to it.

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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

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We go to 15.

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8 plus 7 is 15.

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So hopefully that gives you a sense of how to do

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these types of problems.

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I guess this and you're going to learn multiplication in a

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little bit, but these types of problems are-- when you're

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getting started off in mathematics, these kind of

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require the most practice and to some degree, you have to

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start memorizing them.

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But over time, when you look back, I want you to remember

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how you feel while you're watching this video right now.

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And then I want you to watch this video in like 3 years and

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remember how you felt when you're watching it now.

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And you're going to be, oh my God.

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This was so easy because you're going to learn it so fast.

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So anyway, I think you have an idea.

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If you don't know the answer to any of the additional problems

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that we give in the exercises you can press the hints and

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it'll draw circles and you can just count up the circles.

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Or if you want to do it on your own so you get

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the problem right, you could draw the circles.

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Or you could draw a number line like we did in

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this presentation.

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I think you might be ready to tackle the addition problems.

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Have fun.

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