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Or Google Drive if 2GB of storage space is not enough.

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I did not like the final 10 minutes of it. Did you see it in Angelika?

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Marx correctly pointed out that unbridled capitalism ends in only one way: a relatively small group of very wealthy and powerful men at the top will own essentially everything, and everyone else must spend their entire lives working for these owners because the only “capital” they own is their labor, which has to be exchanged on a perpetual basis for life’s basic necessities.
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For a second, I thought you were talking about China, Vietnam, North Korea, etc…[/quote]

Which is why I made the comment that China is not a communist country few months ago. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, but calls itself big bad wolf…

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Said the cop securing the perimeter: “If she didn’t do anything she would stop resisting.”

Hahn ended up being charged with felony resisting arrest and battery on a peace officer. For two years, she battled the charges in court, Geragos said. It wasn’t until an investigator he hired found video of the incident that they were able to get the charges dismissed.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/oct/05/lawsuit-carlsbad-police-excessive-force-valencia/

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[quote=flu]
No. Multiplication of 2 digits is implied by end of third grade. At least it was in our district. Or maybe I just wasn’t paying attention what was actually taught in school since I sort have have our own enrichment at home and at Chinese school (which in itself has issues..)

In public schools, if you are lucky the teacher will try to break the students up into different levels depending on ability. If you are unlucky, the teach won’t and the same material will be taught and your kid might end up being bored.[/quote]

The teacher will revisit multiplication at the beginning of 4th and 5th grade. I thought the concepts introduced the first couple of grades were fairly advanced. I guess they do that to make the iterative jumps smaller, but it seems too repetitive. Multiplying fractions in 3rd grade – fairly advanced. Doing it again in 4th, 5th and 6th, not so much.

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I am not against all of ccm…. But questions like this seem to beat around the bush of whether a kid really knows what a least common multiple is and overcomplicates explaining what an lcm is and how one goes about finding it.

The purpose of this question is suppose to challenge whether a kid knows lcm or not. But along with it, it introduces a lot of other things that while may be fine for some of us more mathematically inclined, will utterly confused he heck out of those that aren’t. For example, your average nonmath oriented kid is not going to feel that comfortable with fsomething like a function and variables. And now this questions overcomplicates the lcm lesson by introducing max(a1,a2), etc….and there’s a more practical consideration… When is such a “puzzle” type lcm question ever used in the real world, even in engineering and science… (It isn’t)…third.. This type of question will also make math incredibly more difficult to understand for those social-economically disadvantaged esl students by now introducing a heck of lot of English leaning language into a fundamentally easy math concept that should have been language agnostic. So… Again…I am not sure I understand the point of this type of question, except to see how well kids are at solving clever puzzle questions that have very little bearing on the real practical math use cases in the real world.

Anyway..my 4th grader figured this out, simple because her Chinese ol school math lessons taught lcm the old fashion way back when she was in 3rd grade and because she understands lcm now..simply because of practice practice practice.[/quote]

Sorry for the confusion. The language did not include the notation I used. The kids are supposed to think about the problem. OK, lcm(7, 9) is 63. However, lcm(a1, a2) is not always a1 x a2. So, when will that be?
I just liked the fact that you cannot simply drill the kid into applying specific algorithm to solve the problem.

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[quote=flu]Out of curiosity…I am sort of curious what percentage of the people that like ccm are STEM degreed/career oriented people.[/quote]

I like the fact that common core is not 100% focused on making sure that 12 year old child can multiply one digit numbers. Imagine where your kid would be if all she had to do is meet pre-ccm standard of good enough?

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[quote=livinincali][quote=all]Flu, common core requirements make more sense as you move to slightly more complex material.

Sixth grade handbook has a problem similar to this

Person A is asked to find the least common multiple for the following pairs: (17, 41), (31, 11), (29, 37). Person A concludes that LCM(a1, a2) can be calculated as a1 x a2, for a1, a2 > 0.
Person B is given the following pairs: (8, 32), (12, 36), (9, 45). Person B concludes LCM(a1, a2) = MAX(a1, a2).
Person C is given (14, 18), (42, 10), (22, 4) and person C comes up with LCM(a1, a2) = a1 x a2 / 2.

Are A, B, or C conclusions accurate? If not, what additional requirement(s) must a1 and a2 meet to make each formula accurate?

I thought it was good problem and it is very different from what no child left behind requirements were.[/quote]

I’m not sure I’m a huge fan of a question where the correct response ends up being a simple yes. I’d be more of a fan if the test question asked the taker to figure out an algorithm to get the LCM for the following pairs.[/quote]

That is the point of asking to figure out the additional requirements that would make the statements accurate.

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Flu, common core requirements make more sense as you move to slightly more complex material.

Sixth grade handbook has a problem similar to this

Person A is asked to find the least common multiple for the following pairs: (17, 41), (31, 11), (29, 37). Person A concludes that LCM(a1, a2) can be calculated as a1 x a2, for a1, a2 > 0.
Person B is given the following pairs: (8, 32), (12, 36), (9, 45). Person B concludes LCM(a1, a2) = MAX(a1, a2).
Person C is given (14, 18), (42, 10), (22, 4) and person C comes up with LCM(a1, a2) = a1 x a2 / 2.

Are A, B, or C conclusions accurate? If not, what additional requirement(s) must a1 and a2 meet to make each formula accurate?

I thought it was good problem and it is very different from what no child left behind requirements were.

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[quote=spdrun]Don’t pay the frou-frou. Probably cheaper to hire a few strippers of both genders for an open house :)[/quote]

This. Boys like seeing strippers and faults that can be used to knock the price down.
Girls like their dream doll houses.

If you are looking to sell to an investor who will make it look nice and flip it go with stripped.

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Staged professionally > empty > staged DIY

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I thought Avengers are really dumb movie, while I liked Interstellar a lot. My kids on the other hand think Interstellar is boring and Avengers are fun. I am not a customer for any McConaughey paraphernalia while my kids want to dress up as Thor, Flash and that other equally silly character for Halloween.

Kip Thorne as a consultant on the movie did nothing for my kids.

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[quote=scaredyclassic]Proposed intl rule:

You break it you buy it.[/quote]

Wasn’t that (break it/own it) what Colin Powell supposedly told George W. Bush re Iraq?

The story of the family of the 3 y.o. child that drowned on Wednesday shows the complexity of the situation and Western response to consequences of their actions. Canada reportedly offered the surviving dad citizenship after denying previous asylum request by the family.

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But Google employees are mostly in SV, where cost of living is much lower.

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Don’t buy Hasbro.
Melissa&Doug toys are what progressive parents love. If Brian was a baby he would want nothing else.

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