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drunkle, I concur. There was such thing called affirmative action. It was supposed to help other minorities but end up hurting the Asian students. I know people who had great grades, great SAT score and did a lot of extra curricular activities but was rejected from some UC school because there was enough Asian there already. Luckily, it was abolished.

Regarding alternative methods, I concur as well. However, it would help even more if they’re forced to do everything in their head. The more you practice that, the faster you become. That’s how people from overseas can do those calculation so quickly in their head. It’s through years of practice. When you make students show their work, you’re basically slow their thinking down because they have to write it down. Which would then limit their thinking to one calculation at a time.

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sdcellar, I would also like to know where you get your information as well. Sounds like it’s too good to be true. But if it’s true, this will definitely start the snow ball rolling.

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sdcellar, I would also like to know where you get your information as well. Sounds like it’s too good to be true. But if it’s true, this will definitely start the snow ball rolling.

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I totally agree with you forsale_2007. When you don’t have to do it on paper, you think very differently. Lets use the 7.75% tax you’re talking about. If I would have to do it on paper, I would have to calculate one number at a time. But if you do it in your head, you’ll find short cuts that allow you to get the same result faster. Such as multiplying 7.75 by 2 will give you 15.5%. You know what 1% is quickly so you can divide that by 2 to get the .5%, and you know what 10% is quickly, so if you divide that in 1/2 and add it to the 10%, you get 15.5% quite quickly with very simple math. Take that # and divide by 2 and you get your 7.75% tax with very simple math. I think that’s what I think is the difference between showing your work on paper learning method and doing it in your head learning method.

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I totally agree with you forsale_2007. When you don’t have to do it on paper, you think very differently. Lets use the 7.75% tax you’re talking about. If I would have to do it on paper, I would have to calculate one number at a time. But if you do it in your head, you’ll find short cuts that allow you to get the same result faster. Such as multiplying 7.75 by 2 will give you 15.5%. You know what 1% is quickly so you can divide that by 2 to get the .5%, and you know what 10% is quickly, so if you divide that in 1/2 and add it to the 10%, you get 15.5% quite quickly with very simple math. Take that # and divide by 2 and you get your 7.75% tax with very simple math. I think that’s what I think is the difference between showing your work on paper learning method and doing it in your head learning method.

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I always thought USC = University of Spoiled Children :-). But UCI = University of Chinese Immigrants :-).

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I always thought USC = University of Spoiled Children :-). But UCI = University of Chinese Immigrants :-).

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I think it’s safe to say everyone would much rather live in a condo than a mobile home. But everyone also would much rather live in a SFR than a condo. Most of the time, the only reason why anyone live in a condo or a mobile home is because that’s all they can afford. I’ve seen mobile home advertised on craigslist for around $75k-$100k. $400-500/month payment might be all some people can afford.

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I think it’s safe to say everyone would much rather live in a condo than a mobile home. But everyone also would much rather live in a SFR than a condo. Most of the time, the only reason why anyone live in a condo or a mobile home is because that’s all they can afford. I’ve seen mobile home advertised on craigslist for around $75k-$100k. $400-500/month payment might be all some people can afford.

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Wow, didn’t know mobile home is that low on the property ladder :-).

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a tent

Wow, didn’t know mobile home is that low on the property ladder :-).

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I don’t think that outrageous at all. What else can you think of that’s below condo and above mobile home?

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I don’t think that outrageous at all. What else can you think of that’s below condo and above mobile home?

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I’m sure Data Quick number will be different but here’s a good site that track median price and inventory of many cities in the US: Linky. Base on this site, inventory in SD is up 2% compare to last year, 7.7% compare to last month, and 21.4% compare to 3 months ago.

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I’m sure Data Quick number will be different but here’s a good site that track median price and inventory of many cities in the US: Linky. Base on this site, inventory in SD is up 2% compare to last year, 7.7% compare to last month, and 21.4% compare to 3 months ago.

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