Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
Veda Bites are swipeable micro-lessons — each one teaches exactly one idea. Here's a taste from this kit; the app has the full deck.
A procedure so precise that no step needs judgement.
An algorithm is a step-by-step procedure that arrives at an answer. What makes it an algorithm rather than a hint is precision: each step says exactly what to do, so nothing is left to judgement.
↳ An algorithm can be followed without deciding anything.
Align, add, carry, repeat, finish.
↳ Step 5 is the one people forget.
Ten or more in a column, and never 2.
If a column totals less than ten, write the total and set the carry to 0. If it reaches ten or more, write the units digit and set the carry to 1. The largest a column can be is $9+9+1=19$, so one new group of ten is the most that can ever form.
↳ A column reaches at most 19.
Two names for one number.
The greatest common divisor of two numbers and their highest common factor are the same number. This topic finds it straight from the definition rather than from prime factors.
↳ Greatest divisor, highest factor.
Start empty, test everything, append on discovery.
↳ The list comes out sorted for free.
Six divisors, eighteen tests.
↳ The list only ever grows.
Adding by counting dots works, and stops being practical almost at once. The column method is the same answer reached a different way: align the digits from the right so place values meet, add each column, and carry a ne…
~40 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
The gcd of two numbers -- the same thing as their hcf -- can be found without prime factorisation at all, by working straight from the definition. List every divisor of each number, keep the ones that appear in both list…
~45 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
Naming the values an algorithm keeps track of, and choosing how to hold them, is part of the algorithm itself: a list is a data structure. Three refinements then cut the gcd scan from m + n candidates to min(m, n) and fi…
~50 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
183 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
What is $473 + 695$?
Beginner1168
Units $3+5=8$. Tens $7+9=16$, so write 6 and carry 1. Hundreds $4+6+1=11$, so write 1 and carry 1, and the last carry becomes the leading 1.
Counting dots the way we first learned, what is $5 + 7$?
Beginner12
Five dots and seven more dots tally to twelve, which is the same answer the column method gives.
What is $33 + 27$?
Beginner60
Units $3+7=10$, so write 0 and carry 1. Tens $3+2+1=6$.
What is $334 + 272$?
Beginner606
Units $4+2=6$. Tens $3+7=10$, write 0 and carry 1. Hundreds $3+2+1=6$.
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