So I’m working on this art project, right, and I’m going to be applying these 1.5 inch decorative leaves to a certain space that’s 7 inches wide. I’m trying to figure out how many leaves I’ll need to cover the space.
And I was sitting there, trying to figure out how to solve this problem. Multiplication? Division? I tried both, and both answers seemed perfectly cromulent. Finally I got out my tape measure and tried to count the number of times 1.5 inches happens in 7 inches.
As I did this, it occurred to me that I had a 7 inch space, and basically I was dividing it into 1.5 increments.
Oh, language, my old friend… without you, I wouldn’t be able to do a third grade level word problems in under 15 minutes.
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