From a bus ride with Malcolm Swan:
Take the number 25 and break it into as many addends as you want. Multiply those addends together. Share your product with a neighbor. Whose product is bigger? Can you make a bigger one? What’s the biggest possible product?
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Joey Kelly
August 14, 2014 - 6:38 pm -We used a version of this problem at my school in the spring, and it was a lot of fun. Read about it here: misteristhisright.com.