Adding Time Quickly!

Here is a very useful hack to add hours and minutes together:

Let's try adding 2 hours and 44 minutes with 2 hours and 25 minutes.

Step 1: 

First, lets put the hours and minutes together so that they form a number. We will get 244 and 255

Step 2: 

Now using the addition hack you learnt earlier add  244 to 225

244 + 225 = 469

Step 3: 

Now add 40 (this is a fixed addition step) to 469 to give you 509 (This is a compulsory step to be done so for all addition of time.)

Since hour is always in single digit and minutes in double-digit, you should write your answer, which is 509, in the same way (509 = 5 + 09).

Thus, the answer is 5 hours and 09 minutes.

Share this trick with your friends and have fun adding time quickly!
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An amazing trick to do multiplication by 11 fast!

This method will show you how to multiply by 11!
Try challenging your tutor this tie round :)

Let’s start with the example of 15 X 11

Firstly you need to take both the digits in 15 i.e. 1 and 5, and add them together

so à 1 + 5 = 6

Now place the 6 in between 15 to give you 165.

165 is your answer.

It’s that easy!

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Do mental subtraction quickly!

When subtracting, we want to avoid the carrying over of numbers so that we can solve it mentally. Try it with your tuition teacher.

We are going to use the same trick that we used for solving addition problems and subtract from left to right.

E.g)    664  - 453

Step 1: Group the numbers into hundreds, tens, and ones

i.e. 664 (600 + 60 + 4) – 453 (400 + 50 +3)

Step 2: Going from left to right, subtract the hundreds

             600 – 400 = 200

Step 3: Now subtract the tens

            60 – 50 = 10

Step 4: Now subtract the ones

            4 – 3 = 1 

Step 5:  Now add all your answers together

             200 + 10 + 1 =  211    

   

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How to do addition quickly?

The trick is to add from left to right, rather than the conventional right to left. Try this with your tutor.

We can do this by adding the tens first and then adding the ones. 

e.g. 45 + 34

Step 1: Group the numbers into tens and ones i.e. 45 (40 + 5) +34 (30 + 4)

Step 2: Add the tens i.e. 40 + 30 = 70

Step 3: Add the ones i.e.  5 + 4 = 9

Step 4: Add both your answers i.e. 70 + 9 = 79

Now to deal with carrying over numbers which are above 10.

Step 1: Group the numbers into tens and ones i.e. 46 (40 + 6) +35 (30 + 5)

Step 2: Add the tens i.e. 40 + 30 = 70

Step 3: Add the ones i.e.  6 + 5 = 11

Step 4: Add both your answers i.e. 70 + 11 = 81

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