answer:I take the numbers apart into more manageable elements and recombine them. For example, 14×36 = (10×36) + (4×36), and I rebreak (4×36) into 2(2×36). Then I back up and gather up the pieces and assemble them, breaking down the addition into chunks as needed. Some addition is expressed as little subtraction chunks as well; for instance, I might turn a 7 into a 10 – 3 or I might fill up the 7 to the next 10 by deducting 3 from one of the other components. I see the parts as if they were little movable wooden blocks with finished or unfinished computations on them. The numbers have color values for me because of grapheme-color synesthesia, but the blocks appear to be colored randomly. I kind of slide them around with the pieces on them. They are always right side up, and they have the thickness of Scrabble tiles.. No, wait, actually the blocks seem to be either red or green. I have no idea why. 47 – 23 = 47 – 20 = 27 – 3 = .24. I think I tend to do things like that from left to right instead of ones first, then tens, etc. 617 + 3194 = 3194 + 617 = 3794 + 17 = 3790 + 4 + 10 + 7 = 3800 + 11 = 3811 I’m a word person, not a numbers person, so this process is slow for me—up to several minutes. I forgot to actually notice the time because the process blotted out other things.