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Michelle

Alright, welcome back mathematicians! Today we're going to use our amazing mathematical skills to help us look magical! And to help me today, I'm joined by Barbara and Ayesha.

Hi guys!

Barbara

Hi Michelle.

Ayesha

Hello!

Michelle

Now before we get started, I'm going use maths today to predict what I think you're going to respond to, when I ask you a series of questions.

And so, what I'm going to do is write those down ...with what I think your answer is going to be on my sticky note and show everybody so they can see it.

[Michelle writes 1089 on a sticky note and shows it to the viewers.]

And now I'm going to ask you a few questions.

So, the first thing I need you to do is to select a 3-digit number where each of the digits is smaller than the one before and so, for example, we might choose 976.

Or you might choose 531.

Barbara

OK.

Michelle

Over to you to pick a number.

Barbara

Can I choose 532?

Michelle

Alright, so 532.

[Michelle writes 532 on the large piece of paper.]

Then, record another number now be reversing those digits.

Ayesha

So that would mean it is 235.

[On the right of the first digit, Ayesha reverses the number and writes 235.]

Michelle

And then I'd like you to subtract 235 from 532.

Ayesha

So, we're doing 532 minus 235. Is that right?

[Ayesha creates a second row and writes 532 minus 235.]

Michelle

Yep!

Barbara

OK, so the first thing I would do is I would do 532 and I would take away 200 and that leaves me with 332. So now I still need to subtract 35, but what I'll do is I'll subtract 32 first.

[The number 332 is written down in a new row.]

Because 332 takeaway 32 leaves me with 300.

[The number 300 is written down in a new row.]

And I'm nearly done, but I still need to take away 3. And 300 takeaway 3 is equivalent to 297.

[The number 297 is written down in a new row.]

Michelle

Great, so now you've got a new 3-digit number: 297.

Can you reverse the digits in 297 to make a new 3-digit number?

Ayesha

So, 792.

[Ayesha writes down the number 792 in a new row.]

Michelle

Great! And then can you join those 2 three-digit numbers together please.

Ayesha

That's going to be 792 and we're going to join those together...so from 792 I'm going to add 297.

[Ayesha writes down 792 in a new row. Underneath she writes 792 plus 297.]

Barbara

OK, So, what do I do? Because I can see that 792 is quite close to 800.

Ayesha

It is very close!

Barbara

I will just add 8 first as that will get me to 800.

[Ayesha writes the number 800 in a new row.]

And now I need to add the rest of it, but I've already added part of it, which was the 8.

So now I'm going to add another 289. And if I add 800 plus 289 that is 1089.

Michelle

Which is exactly what I predicted!

[Michelle places down the sticky note from the beginning of the video with the number 1089 on it.]

Barbara

Wow!

Ayesha

No way!

Michelle

Now, you know what you should be asking....

Barbara

How did you do that?

Michelle

How did you do that?

Barbara

Is it magic?

Michelle

Magic!

Over to you, mathematicians!

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