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My criticism about Common Core is different than that. The problem with it is that it assumes that the various abstract ways to arrive at answers are easily understood by all people. When I was in school, I would get in trouble for not "showing my work," because if I saw 37+29, in my head I saw 37+30-1, a typical common core strategy. Now when presented with a number of different strategies, my autism brain, and certainly that of my son, realizes that certain strategies make way more sense than others, but it depends entirely on how your brain is wired. It's the reason my wife navigates on landmarks, and I navigate on spacial relationships. I argue that trying to teach them all to all people is an enormous waste of time and sets kids up for failure. Some stick, others don't.

Anyway, back to Covid, here's an interesting article about exit strategies from the pandemic. The problem? They all rely on efficient testing and contact tracing. You know, the things we suck at here:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/new-study-models-ways-of-em...-lockdown/

Common core - was that they thing where you used a matrix to multiply numbers?

Math class is tough.

I know this is just one data point and purely anecdotal, but I've only been in Miami for 48 hours and I've already died of COVID twice.

Ugh. Miami. I feel your pain. My deepest condolences.

I remember when I was a freshmen at the U. Took me about a week of class to convince my new friend to load half the hallway in his Grand Marquee and drive us up to ride the Dania Beach Hurricane.

Lord Gonchar said:

I've only been in Miami for 48 hours and I've already died of COVID twice.

Doubtful. You probably died of COVID once, and some other thing the other time, but your doctors were told to put "COVID" as the cause for both to pad the numbers.

Now that you know you're not invincible, will you agree to inject yourself with the mark of the beast when (or if) you get the opportunity?

I hope you've learned your lesson.

Lord Gonchar said:

I know this is just one data point and purely anecdotal, but I've only been in Miami for 48 hours and I've already died of COVID twice.

I think that’s two data points—enough for a trend line!

Apparently this is all it takes to be successful at on-line schooling.

On-Line School

Maybe those that struggled in the spring did not create a mission statement?

Lord Gonchar said:

I know this is just one data point and purely anecdotal, but I've only been in Miami for 48 hours and I've already died of COVID twice.

Are you in a refrigerator truck?

Shades said:

Common core - was that they thing where you used a matrix to multiply numbers?

Yes, that was one of a number of ways to show multiplying binomials. That's a visual method of showing FOIL which is what everyone eventually learns in algebra to multiply binomials. It works on two digit numbers, mixed numbers, simple algebraic binomials, and every binomial ever created. It's also an explicit way to show what everyone does implicitly when they make the two lines and begin the second with 0 or X and then add them. I don't like the matrix itself because it can't be easily extended to trinomials, but the conceptually I'd much rather show what's going on and why something works than teach a rote algorithm.

Jeff said:

Anyway, back to Covid, here's an interesting article about exit strategies from the pandemic. The problem? They all rely on efficient testing and contact tracing. You know, the things we suck at here:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/new-study-models-ways-of-em...-lockdown/

The actual, real problem is summed up in the last line of the article: "The key question will remain whether we can get society to trust the public health experts when they indicate the safest paths out of the current mess" which we suck at even worse.

Apollo Andy asked:

Are you in a refrigerator truck?

I wish. It'd at least be a reprieve from the heat. I don't know how anyone appreciates this weather. People always say, "Well it's just as hot in Ohio," and it often is, but our dewpoint is like 20 degrees lower. The dewpoints in the high 70's down here are literally oppressive. It's dumb.

With that said (and to stay on topic), Miami is doing a MUCH better job than I expected as far as masks, distancing, and general compliance given the statistics coming out of South Florida. I'm seeing hardly anyone without a mask or whatnot.

What I have heard from multiple people (all the way from family members to the valet guy that parked our car this afternoon) is that the stats seem inflated, the reality isn't as bad as we're being told, and this will all be over on November 4th.

So there's that.

But, overall. Miami hasn't been the train wreck I was expecting. In general, it's felt no less safe than back home in Ohio where we've been "doing it right" by most accounts.

So rampant dry humping is not a thing in Miami?

i am curious as to what comes out of Sturgis. That sounds like a bad scene.

Miami always has and will be a train wreck. (and then came Global Warming) That's the beauty of the City Beautiful. Is there anything to the Miami scene besides dry humping? They tore down the roller coaster. Miami is the gateway to all points south in the hemisphere. I thought the summer's were brutal. Until I moved to CENTRAL Florida. Wait for the change of season (and Hurricane Football ..........err I mean)

The interesting thing is that it has been Broward and Palm Beach, not Miami-Dade, that has been the train wreck in the recent months. I'm not sure what to make of that, other than the fact that the upper two are somewhat more uppity.

And please, Beaver Creek had a dewpoint of 69 today. But South FL is a little worse.

I’ve lived in Orlando for 12+ years and have been to Miami twice, both for events that I drove in and right back out for. I’ve never had the desire or interest to go back. If I want to go to the beach I go to New Smyrna on the Atlantic side or the St. Pete/Fort Desoto/Treasure Island area on the Gulf side.

If only I knew how much dry humping I had been missing out on, I would have gone more in my 20s. I also regret not stopping at the Rusty Anchor to see Blanche Devereaux.

Masks? Not only don't you have to, you can't.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/us/sheriff-no-mask-ocala-trnd/index.html

Yeah. That seems like the dumbest thing I think I've seen/heard in a while.