Carrie Newcomer: You Can Do This Hard Thing
given: without counting one-by-one find out how many pears there are if there are three groups of pears with 14 pears in one group 26 in another group and 49 in the final group write the numbers of each group lined up over each other and draw a line under them add the numbers of the right column write down the resulting farthest right digit below the line if there is a number left write it above the next column to the left add to any number you carried over from the right column the remaining numbers in this column write the result to the left of the last number of the right column hooray pears added you can do this hard thing and then we’ll un-add until you can do that hard thing and then we’ll speed-add yes you can do that hard thing as well as speed-un-add then it will be your turn to take this as far as you can and it will be your turn to teach me more than maths logic O show me the world through another’s eye I want to do this hard thing and to do it with you