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You mean you haven't got him working out the net profit on each sale when ebay, paypal and shipping fees are taken into account? On a serious note, a while back someone mentioned how they helped with their kids geography knowledge by having them put pins on a map of every location they had a sale in. I think bringing the kids into the numerical side of this business would be a good way of teaching them maths and getting to help with Dad's hobby, you do enough sums without making it work and it becomes second nature.. Here's my 16 month old daughter helping with the business. She wasn't impressed with how I was storing the Mixels, so moved them all to the other side of the room

Perhaps the reason the teacher gets the answer wrong is because he/she is a math teacher and failed English. This helps explain the poor comprehension of the problem. I am enjoying reading all of the replies on this subject.

Yes, but in parts of the US Donald Trump is seen as a great presidential candidate

To the Quick Flip mobile!

Simple problem if you don't use common core math and just teach "math straight up." 117 boys 196 total kids Fewer means less than, subtraction, opposite of addition. The number of boys minus the number of girls must equal 79. Since it's the opposite, adding 38 and 79 equals the answer. No need to round or do funny stuff. My sons grade two math teacher asked me to stop teaching him advanced techniques for solving math. I said ok, then didn't. He's starting to solve grade five level problems at the end of grade three. Thanks but I'll keep teaching him.

Hopefully, they both bought it then...

My brain works differently than most people's, to solve that I would do this... 80+80= 160 + 38 =198-2= 196 total 200-80=120-3=117 boys that way of thinking seems overly complicated for such a simple problem, but that technique allows for doing more complex math in my head quickly without writing anything down. Used to drive my teachers bat ship crazy in school. An overly simple example figure out 78x7 in your head. I would do 80x7=560-14=546, just how my brain works. I would say that kids should be made to master the more traditional method first, then use the above method if it works for them. Not sure what the eff your kids teacher was doing.

As a proud employee of Frito Lay, I'd say you made a GREAT choice on those pretzels. The $49 Tydirium wasn't all that bad either.

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Time for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs MOC ????

On that one.. I've never seen flaming meatballs on a LEGO box until this one.

Interesting read. I would tend to agree with red that the problem here is an "english" problem rather than an arithmetic problem... The key word here is 'fewer' changing the meaning of fewer changes the answer. As greg put it in a simple and elegant answer 38 fewer girls than boys is equivalent to 38 more boys than girls then just simply add the numbers to get boys (117). Add girls once again to this to get total (196). The teacher apparently interpreted the problem as "38 less boys than girls" so he/she forgot to invert the meaning of fewer at some point in her logic. If this is a recurrent thing, I would be very concerned about this teacher... though it is possible that she was just having a really bad day/was completely distracted by something else going on.

Unless of course it's frozen concentrated orange juice.

I've had no issues, but I usually mention having kids. Just remember some places don't have any left or the employee doesn't realize there are some in the back. I've been told no at a GameStop and gone back another time to have an employee find one in the back. Side note I just saw the Chima Ice Bear Mechs all over the Gulf Coast region Targets and a few boxes of $5.99 C3POs at TRUs in that same area.

But then you've got to carry the...

Just add 38+79... Lol = boys

Who wrote down the problem? Seems to me the "teacher" might have just written down the problem wrong, or perhaps switched it up from a previous year and forgot to update the answers. Still, that's super frustrating. Math is not hard. Telling kids it is hard makes it hard. Telling kids it's easy and then showing them you're not lying by quickly solving the problem is the best thing you can do for their confidence. You can easily brainwash errr... show kids how easy it is if they apply themselves. Argh, you got me all wound up.

There are lots of ways to teach kids how to manipulate numbers without screwing with basic math. The results are in for provinces in Canada who've been doing this crap. Competency in math is down. http://truthinamericaneducation.com/common-core-state-standards/look-to-canada-to-see-the-future-of-common-core-math/ My partner teaches a required course in quantitative statistics in University (for the arts, but still they need to know the basics of math). In the last 10 years she's seen the decline and bemoans it every time she has to grade tests. Now that our kids (8 and 5) are starting down this path, we understand why it's so bad.

You've hit the nail on the head. My wife and I haven't been a fan of this teacher since day one, even though she gets rave reviews from others. I've gotten a "plays favorites" vibe with her, as I've heard from a variety of different parents how kids are treated/not treated. My daughter was already asleep by the time I looked at her homework and did the digging tonight. I need to find out for sure who helped do this problem - was it the teacher or was it a fellow student? And, if so, why the teacher gave it a pass without marking it wrong. Something is fishy here. Edit to add: This is 2nd Grade Math (my daughter is 8 years old)

Because I expect a lot of folks to talk about the Walmart Clearance wave, I have started a new thread dedicated to it with a list of current sets spotted:

you'll regret not getting them all - 50% off star wars lego = CASH MONEY. even crappy Jabbas Barge is back to MSRP amazaon FBM i'd video and post the shelf swipe.

I have had them just give it and I have had to buy something

Clearly the last production run? They'll keep making them as long as you buy 5 and 2.

up to 18 now after seeing these on multiple survival levels in Battlefront which is one long commercial of IST. Need to make an MOC of my lifeless body being blasted by a shocktrooper minifigure while hiding underneath the IST in the rain on the Endor base level. Imperial Shuttles seem to be rare in the rotation . There have only been 6 Imperial Shuttle LEGO sets and 3 of those were polybags or small sets under 100 pieces. There should be at least 4-5 years of no remake at a minimum - maybe even longer given the new movies and new material. This is the second largest Imperial Shuttle and will be the 99%'er 10212 UCS Imperial Shuttle. I would anticipate EOL to commence at the end of November during the holiday black friday double VIP annual mass extinction event. maybe we get lucky and it goes sooner but i doubt it , it is loaded in stock _EVERYWHERE_ at the moment. expecting target to clear these at 30-50% off coming up in June-July. yes its hoarded and being hoarded - on the shelves of every walmart, target, TRU, kmart, but assuming no remakes for at least 4-5 years and the frequent screen time in Battlefront and ongoing re-birth of dark age AFOLs , $240 by November 2019 would be my price target. at an $80 buyin, you are easily doubling your money post fees etc but again, that's like 42 months from now which probably sounds like forever to a lot of BP'ers.

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Definitely a psychological thing. People feel much better about spending 99c vs 1EUR and i think it just scales up. And then when it breaks 1k it wont break it by a few EUR (although I'd hazard that a lot of people would be willing to let this go at 1k so it might stick there a while).

ball = $0.05, bat = $1.05 I agree the wording could be improved, but if you slow down and read it properly the answer should be obvious. If you're rushing or careless, it's easy to make mistakes. Funny enough, that's why in math you ALWAYS show your work and write neat and tidy. It is _sooooo_ hard to teach that to an 8 year old, but I try anyways.

Lego is buy one get one 40% off this week at Fred Meyer. If you're looking for Disney minifigs there were 10 cases at the Kirkland store (I-405/116th St) as of 12:30 today, didn't appear to be picked over much.

Bought my first used lot off craigslist. $220 all mini figures included. All used but in good shape. Not all have boxes or instructions but he described it correctly. Pretty happy but a bit overwhelmed because it's a huge lot. Anxious to get home and sort out. And yes, this one has the Deadpool and Wolverine. Made sure to check. Will post pics when I get home.

No, but there's a useless bucket on the track machine that you can remove and use for something else. The blade needs to be _in front_ of the tracks to be effective, otherwise what the hell is it going to be used for?

The box art is good.

I love how they built the whole MF in it's entirety instead of using CGI. This is what made TFA feel authentic. The number of sets, vehicles, and aliens they actually built/made is incredible. They cover a lot of this on the TFA blu-ray.

At UK LEGO Shop at Home this set has now dropped out of the top 25 sellers.

Yes. On one hand I understand what they tried to do with common core, they wanted kids to understand how to do math, instead of memorize steps to do problems. But on the other hand, there are still fundamentals that should be memorized to help with understanding math.

Open an item unpaid item case if your sale meets the criteria... 4 days is too long for the buyer to not have responded, never mind not have paid.

@Alpinemaps There is a good chance the teacher just had not had her cup of coffee before engaging your daughter. As much as I detest common core, that looked more like a teacher problem than problem with calculation method. Even if your daughter got frustrated and wrote 41 on her own (sorry, but it could happen), how did the teacher just pass that as correct answer???

Hmm. I uploaded these directly to the Brickpicker forum Take II for Cafe Corner.

I'm still passing on this price on Amazon because I think it's too high. This is one of the sets I have down to buy this year, but I also set a price which I want to get the sets for and I don't mind passing on a set if I can't achieve it. On this set I want to try and get it for €60, I might go a few euro over that, but no more than that. It's not quite @Val-E's 40% off I'm afraid, I don't quite have his magic touch. Not sure if I'll manage to pick up this set at the desired price though as a lot of places where I can get better deals don't seem to be stocking it. Best hope is that Smyths already have it reduced when they do their 20% sale and I can pick them up cheap there. Actually just realised I'm in Belfast tomorrow so could see whether Toysrus would price match the Amazon price, would be more like €63 then.

Buy up some of those IACs.

I honestly haven't seen a good deal at Walmart in store in so long that I don't even bother anymore. I've wasted too many trips to my local stores only to find regularly priced items in their clearance section. goodluck to others.

See I'd go with the opposite line of thinking. If you have a new playset that's not selling well, retire the alternatives to push customers towards your new product that you've invested in.

Won't sitting on them make the boxes even worse?

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I don't think ISD has stopped growing yet. AT-AT may have trouble getting above $250, but we'll see. The radar is so huge now it's hard to get around that thing.

If I get 10 likes on this post, I'll give you all the advice you need for LEGO investing.