> As an aside, another thing I tend to do is visualize multiplication problems in my head. When I do a simple problem like 24 x 7 in my head, what I actually see is:
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> 24
> x7
> ---
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> And I actually do the problem in my head as if I were doing it on paper. Meaning I do 7 x 4, then do (7 x 2) + 2 (and yes, I mentally carry the two, so I see it floating up there over the problem) to end up with 168. Anybody else do weird stuff like this?

I do stuff like this all the time. I can't say as I would have thought of the way you did the soda (pop) problem, as I honestly doubt I would have even cared to do it at ALL, if it wasn't an assignment. (What can I say? I'm lazy.) But I have to multiply things at work all the time, and if I don't have something to write it down on, I do it in my head as though I WERE writing it down. Usually, however, I get lost and end up writing it down, anyway.

I suck at math, too.

Mia