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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.

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.

Neurodivergence is a basic part of humanity and always has been. A group with a mixture more easily handles challenges as different people accomplish different things. Obsessing about details is a benefit under the right circumstances. Being impulsive is a benefit for trying new things, like eating new things. Following other people’s lead when it works is great so not everyone is trying new things.

Heck, not perceiving reality accurately can be a benefit if it means getting a new perspective on things. That is why so many cultures have appreciation for hallucinating in controlled settings.

Society punishing non-conformity is the underlying problem for sure, where everyone is expected to fit in a narrow scope called neurotypical which in my opinion is not typical at all.

Splitting up tasks definitely helps sometimes. Like if I get stuck on something difficult that should be easy doing part and coming back tonight is actually easier than trying to force myself through it.

And yeah, putting things out ahead of time so there is less total work at once helps keep it manageable.

That’s because it is a speak and apell pretending to be a hammer.

Mostly because having a disorder that is a daily reminder of how much work it is just to function on a day to day basis and apparently remembering the fuck ups way more than the good things since the fuck ups are basically the same thing each time. It feels worse and worse each year, and honestly my biggest fear is that I will get dementia and not be able to tell because it that is how I have felt my entire life.

That said, reminding myself that I’m doing pretty well is the counterbalance that keeps me going. I’ve accepted my limits and just roll along with becoming a jack of all trades that still has to relearn anything I haven’t done for a few years. Meds help while they are active, but they don’t work 24 hours a day.

Don’t worry, by the time you are 50 it is exactly the same.

Of course, because it doesn’t understand anything and just spits out what it finds. Maybe it ranks certain sites as more reliable, but retractions, and where something is at in a process isn’t taken into consideration.

My very first attempt to use it for work was to ask about the current mill levy exemption and it returned a value from a proposed bill that died in committee in the last session. It also presented that failed bill and then two documents with the correct value so it not only found the right documents that would easily answer the query but presented the wrong one as fact in the text vomit so anyone who didn’t look at the documents would assume the text response was accurate.

It cited its sources after all!

Windows has improved the processes for updating software.

Everything else has gotten worse either by removing options or jamming ads/useless ‘features’ that get in the way. It still sucks, but in some different ways.