Transcript: Finding Factors of 20

DIGIT: What’s with the bubbles?

MATT: Hey! Each of these bubbles has a picture inside it!

INEZ: And each one has a number!

MANNY: Number pairs...find the place…

DIGIT: Number pairs find the place? What’s that supposed to mean?

MATT: Well, we’ve got eight bubbles with pictures and numbers in them.

MANNY: Twenty...need twenty..ah-shh..

DIGIT: Twenty what??!

INEZ: Maybe a pair of these numbers add up to twenty?

MATT: But we only have the numbers one through eight. There aren’t two numbers big enough to add up to twenty!

INEZ: Maybe instead of adding pairs we have to multiply two numbers.

MATT: But which two numbers make twenty when you multiply them together?

DIGIT: I know! Two times ten!

MATT: Hey, you’re right, Didge, two times ten is twenty. But we don’t have the number ten- so it can’t be that pair.

INEZ: How about we make rows and columns of seashells - like we did with the cells?

INEZ: Here's twenty shells.

DIGIT: Okay, but what if two and ten are the only numbers that make twenty when you multiply ‘em?!

INEZ: That’s what we’re going to find out.

INEZ: We’re looking for other factors of twenty.

INEZ: Other numbers that when multiplied together give us twenty with no leftovers.

MATT: Well...it can’t be three times six you’ve got leftovers.

DIGIT: Try five in a row, try five!!

INEZ: Four times five is twenty - with no leftovers!

DIGIT: Whoa! There’s more than one pair of numbers that multiply to twenty. Who knew? Let’s go to the bubbles!

MATT: Pair the numbers...find the place, that’s what Manny said.

INEZ: The pictures must be places!

INEZ: Okay, our pair of numbers is four and five. Bubble four is...a hot dog! And bubble five is...a hill.

DIGIT: Hot Dog Hill!

DIGIT: Icky must be at Hot Dog Hill!

MATT: Are we sure?

DIGIT: Ohh!

MATT: We still have bubbles seven and eight left.

INEZ: If we multiply three times seven it’s twenty-one and that’s more than twenty. So it can’t be any of those bubbles!

MATT: You’re right! Hot Dog Hill it is.