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I scrolled really slow and even zoomed in and have no idea what I might be missing.

Maybe someone in a window? Something in the smoke? The boob armor in the middle?

Is that what they call Common Core? I’ve heard the term but didn’t know how it changed the method of teaching math.

Common core showed multiple ways that were intended to increase the understanding of how math works. This was one of the ways that was presented which wasn’t how they taught it when I was a kid. There were at least two that I remember when my kiddo was doing common core:

• Double one of the numbers and add or subtract the difference between them (7 is two less than 9, so 9x9 then subtract 2)
• Take enough from the smaller number to reach 10 and add what is left (9+7 to 10+6)

That is what Common Core in the US was attempting to do, show several approaches including the one in the OP to help understand how match works instead of teaching the ‘one true way’ that was common prior.

Sigh. Decimals contribute to length. Length.

Yeah, I’m probably missing what you are saying because I’m replying to what you are writing and the more you explain it the less sense it makes. Like there is nothing that I can think of involving decimals that increases in length. Maybe number of steps, but that is also true the more digits are involved and decimals only add one extra step.

Multiplying by 5: mult by 10 divide by 2

A very similar concept for tipping about 20% is taking 1/10th of the bill by moving the decimal one to the left and doubling that. To make it even easier for me I just round to the nearest $10 amount first.

Bill: $66.20 -> move left and round up = $7.00 and double to $14.00. The exact 20% amount is a little over $13 but I tend to round up because it is also faster to add whole dollars to the bill.

Regrats!

Decimal points don’t make it more complicated when you understand the fundamentals.

Using a calculator is not a different way of thinking. You have to understand the math to know whether the calculator is being used correctly, the calculator just makes it faster.

No, the same fundamental concepts works extremely well for multiplication of large numbers and long division, both of which don’t have a memorization option. It also helps with catching typos when using a calculator.

Yup, helping my kiddo with the math portion of Common Core was like seeing professionals finally understanding how easy it is to sort numbers to make stuff easier instead of doing a bunch of rote memorization of tables. Also teaching kids to estimate to know if your math is way off!

Common Core for math was awesome. That was the only one I had to help with so no idea about the rest.

Yes, yes it does. Mental fatigue from working a fucking set schedule that starts earlier than my body wants to every fucking week makes doing anything semi complicated during downtime exhausting.

When I take off a week and do what I want on my own schedule it is easy to get things I want to do done! Sure, I’m cutting lumber at 2 a.m. and using it two days later after getting sidetracked on something else the next morning, but I’m still doing the five total things I want to do over a reasonable time frame.

Like the current administration cares about the law.

Good call, he was the baddest man in the whole damn town.

They only get their back pay if congress authorizes it. While that has happened during prior shutdowns, it does not mean they are guaranteed to be paid this time.

They still count as working for free until they get their backpay.

Acknowledging people exist isn’t political. Regressives act like it is, but it isn’t.

A pride flag on a desk is like having pictures of your kids on your desk.

And some or all of the agents are currently not going to receive their next paycheck if the government stays shut down.

They are willing to do this for free.

Tons of MAGA simps and the Trump administration want the government shut down. It gives them another cover story for further firing of federal employees and withholding payments to programs they don’t like since their initial wave is getting slowed down by the courts.

Statham cups are so hot right now.

Imagine all the false positives from children screaming during play.

Also, fuck this dystopian bullshit.

There is a filinuster rule that used to let the minority party in either house stop bills by speaking for extremely long periods of time during debate. Over the years the House got rid of it and the Senate’s version morphed into treating the announcement that someone would filibuster as the same thing so declaring it effectively shuts down anything that doesn’t have overwhelming support.

Republicans keep it because they can obstruct even if they don’t control any branch. Dems keep it because they want it for leverage to negotiate, not to obstruct. The difference is that over the last few decades Republicans will negotiate and then filibuster anyway so the tool as a whole benefits them while being a negative for Dems who can’t overcome it to pass effective legislation that would help people.

The filibuster is a turd in a punch bowl. It takes a lot less effort to shit in a punch bowl than it takes to make the punch, and one party wants to shit in the punch bowl, even when they are hosting the party.

If they wanted to pass this they can change the rules which only requires a simple majority. They want to keep the current rules because it allows them to shut down the Dems when they are in power and Reps are fine with the government being shut down since their goal is to gut it anyway.

There is no reason for Reps to change the status quo, because this is what they want.