You can at least be grateful to someone who tried to help you instead of condescending.TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2019 12:57 pmWell, that was only slightly less painful than getting a colonoscopy from Wolverine...mungar wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2019 12:46 pm I'm guessing you don't watch The Simpsons, or you'd be very aware of Harrison's term. https://youtu.be/r8N7BSsU5oo
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i will say the simpsons do suck, but you don't have to be an ingrate to someone that is trying to help you, hammer dudeTenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2019 12:57 pmWell, that was only slightly less painful than getting a colonoscopy from Wolverine...mungar wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2019 12:46 pm I'm guessing you don't watch The Simpsons, or you'd be very aware of Harrison's term. https://youtu.be/r8N7BSsU5oo
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I liked it, and if I understand it there's Tyler, there's Taylor, there's Fillmore and there's Hayes, and WHH who died in 30 days. That helps me (a little), although not as much as looking at a list. And I think it isn't comprehensive enough, what about Polk, Garfield, and Arthur? Or Harding, Nixon, and Trump to keep a theme going?CasketRomance wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2019 4:22 pmi will say the simpsons do suck, but you don't have to be an ingrate to someone that is trying to help you, hammer dudeTenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2019 12:57 pmWell, that was only slightly less painful than getting a colonoscopy from Wolverine...mungar wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2019 12:46 pm I'm guessing you don't watch The Simpsons, or you'd be very aware of Harrison's term. https://youtu.be/r8N7BSsU5oo
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Okay, so that marquee names presidents, what does that have to do with actors?
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You got the WoF clue trash; don't worry about the rest. The dreaded FJ! scale of correct response on one side and nothing on the other side. The side with no weight wins again.
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Matt Groening is a genius and you are monsters!twelvefootboy wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2019 6:39 pmI liked it, and if I understand it there's Tyler, there's Taylor, there's Fillmore and there's Hayes, and WHH who died in 30 days. That helps me (a little), although not as much as looking at a list. And I think it isn't comprehensive enough, what about Polk, Garfield, and Arthur? Or Harding, Nixon, and Trump to keep a theme going?CasketRomance wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2019 4:22 pmi will say the simpsons do suck, but you don't have to be an ingrate to someone that is trying to help you, hammer dudeTenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2019 12:57 pmWell, that was only slightly less painful than getting a colonoscopy from Wolverine...mungar wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2019 12:46 pm I'm guessing you don't watch The Simpsons, or you'd be very aware of Harrison's term. https://youtu.be/r8N7BSsU5oo
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My high school library actually had a Life in Hell book. I think I can safely say that Matt Groening's style just doesn't appeal to me.
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French museum and the year. Impressionism was largely a French art movement and it originated in the 1870s.Saw absolutely no way to figure out this FJ! whatsoever. What was the tipoff?
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And Impressionism was considered radical at the time by the art world establishment, hence why it took so long for an Impressionist piece to hang in a museum.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 1:00 amFrench museum and the year. Impressionism was largely a French art movement and it originated in the 1870s.Saw absolutely no way to figure out this FJ! whatsoever. What was the tipoff?
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My take on the whole "movement" dealio with art is that the new fangled photography changed the landscape so much that you couldn't make a living replicating people's image for vanity or posterity. So, you invent alternative universes that may or may not require art skills and voila - a ma$terpiece.alietr wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 8:49 amAnd Impressionism was considered radical at the time by the art world establishment, hence why it took so long for an Impressionist piece to hang in a museum.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 1:00 amFrench museum and the year. Impressionism was largely a French art movement and it originated in the 1870s.Saw absolutely no way to figure out this FJ! whatsoever. What was the tipoff?
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And literally none of this was in my brain, hence my blank screen on this one.alietr wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 8:49 amAnd Impressionism was considered radical at the time by the art world establishment, hence why it took so long for an Impressionist piece to hang in a museum.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2019 1:00 amFrench museum and the year. Impressionism was largely a French art movement and it originated in the 1870s.Saw absolutely no way to figure out this FJ! whatsoever. What was the tipoff?
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December 19, 2018:
But there's no D in this problem at all, so it can't be FOIL'd, can it?
FOIL method was mentioned. FOIL is (A+B)(C+D) = AC+AD+BC+BD.(x + 1)^2 expands to this
But there's no D in this problem at all, so it can't be FOIL'd, can it?
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*pours shot*TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Sun Dec 29, 2019 2:56 pm December 19, 2018:
FOIL method was mentioned. FOIL is (A+B)(C+D) = AC+AD+BC+BD.(x + 1)^2 expands to this
But there's no D in this problem at all, so it can't be FOIL'd, can it?
But there is a D. ^2 is shorthand for multiplying that by itself, so you end up with the following:
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(x+1)(x+1) => x*x + x*1 + 1*x + 1*1
(A+B)(C+D) => A*C + A*D + B*C + B*D
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Hell, you can use FOIL to multiply two-digit numbers:
34x12= (30x10)+(30x2)+(4x10)+(4x2)=300+60+40+8=408
34x12= (30x10)+(30x2)+(4x10)+(4x2)=300+60+40+8=408
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In fact, FOIL (aka the distributive property) is why the multiplication algorithm you learn in third grade works.
Technically, I always used “FOIL” incorrectly - I expanded its meaning to any use of the distributive property of multiplication over addition, like (a+b+c)(d+e). Technically you can’t FOIL that directly - well, you can, but you’d have to clump b with either a or c, and the use the distributive property again.
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As a former math teacher, I'm a little peeved that we reduce this to an algorithm in the 3rd grade. If we taught multi-digit multiplication with this method, students would find algebra easier.talkingaway wrote: ↑Sun Dec 29, 2019 5:36 pmIn fact, FOIL (aka the distributive property) is why the multiplication algorithm you learn in third grade works.
Technically, I always used “FOIL” incorrectly - I expanded its meaning to any use of the distributive property of multiplication over addition, like (a+b+c)(d+e). Technically you can’t FOIL that directly - well, you can, but you’d have to clump b with either a or c, and the use the distributive property again.
An expanded example:
347 x 12:
347 breaks down to 300 + 40 + 7 (that shouldn't surprise anyone), and 12 breaks down to 10 + 2. (This is the same as 3 x 10^2 + 4 x 10^1 + 7 x 10^0 which might be important later).
It's tough to diagram this out in text (Edit: Apparenly J Board shrinks whitespace?), but in high school, I "retaught" multiplication this way:
300 40 7
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10 | | |
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2 | | |
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This becomes a series of 6 easier multiplication steps, then you add them all up to get the final answer.
300 40 7
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10| 3000| 400| 70
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2 |600 | 80 |14
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This becomes 3000+400+600+70+80+14, a visually easier to grasp way of doing it.
We need to teach understanding, not just algorithms at the lower levels.
Somewhat unrealted, not every place does their algorithms the same way. When I was showing long division, my interpreter from Peru, who has a master's degree, coudln't understand it initially since she was taught differently.
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