Why is 5+5+5=15 Wrong on Common Core Test 

or 15 x 1 then I would have written, "lolumad?"

remember class: 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1

this is edited which makes me think you can't count... is joke, comrade

900/60 also works.

*teacher marks it wrong* "It's actually 2 x 7.5, Jimmy."

Thanks

Complain to home schools, they do it too!!!

Getvagazzled amen

Amen bro

So you assume that he made the realization before watching the video? Is that common core projecting?

Newton was not a child just beginning to learn.

A lot of people probably did say calculus is unnecessarily complicated. Proving a limit is much different than, "close enough". Have you ever given calculus a try?

I hope ppl realize that the way Newton and leibniz did calculus was completely different. Newton’s version of notation was harder to read so we didn’t adopt it.

@@happybear3706 I am interested to know why you think your mention of the difference of Leibniz and Newton is relevant to this discussion.

@Become upset. Common Core IS actual math to produce flexible problem solvers, not just training mindless human calculators! Strange classwork stimulates thinking!

You always have a calculator with you. It's called a brain.

And a cell phone just try to pry that from anyone under the age of 40

I'm an Engineer but I was in college at 35, I want nothing more than to staple this comment to my high school Math teacher

@@comradekitty3759 I don't have a phone. I'm wayyy younger than 40. All my friends have phones, my family has phones, why don't I have one.

Haha in Year 7 (age 11) I said to my science teacher something about pressure and he roared "DON'T TALK ABOUT THINGS LIKE PRESSURE UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY MEAN!" and I said, "pressure is simply force divided by area" and he just stared at me like he wanted to kill me and moved swiftly on. Prick \(^_^)/

Camberwell86 wow so smart

You're far too kind

I thought the whole thing about common core was to promote students learning from other students.

Oh, I remember a good one. Checking homework at class. Teacher tells me to go to the blackboard and do an exercise about calculating the perimeter of an equilateral triangle. In my mind I simplified the specific formula for equilateral triangles (side x3) to the one valid for all triangle perimeters (side+side+side). I start writing the formula. Teacher asks what am I doing and tells some shit kid to do it for me, using the specific formula she taught. Teacher tells me to write *50 fucking times* all the perimeter and area formulas we had so far. I spend till 2 a.m. writing that shit. The next day she forgot about it so I spent hours doing that crap for the fucking funsies :)

I work as a white male 6 hours a day.

WeeHenThe Amazing I work 5 hour being a white cis male, 10 hours being black, and then the next 8 hours being every other kind of person.

as a half time asian, and a half time american i am also disgusted with this common core logic

Eliza Schuyler Me also

As a half time Asian (Russian) This destroys the soul

This should have reply’s too.

@@wadeourednik2323 There is nothing to reply to here. It is a sound argument.

I see what you did there. 😆

Why do adults blame Common Core for traditional LOCAL lesson & grading policy???

@@Tiffany-sr2ed Sound argument to IGNORE traditional LOCAL lesson & grading policy?

watch my mathematics videos.

But the teacher here is wrong. Multiplication is commutative, 3*5=5*3.

God bless you for homeschooling. Are you aware of more families homeschooling as time goes on?

@@sassy3923 Yes, I am! And I'm super excited that the homeschool community is growing!!!

@@333whiteraven I'm homeschooled :D

Same tbh

It's still mindblowing, but instead of super deep and incomprehensible quantum mathematics, it's mindblowing how FUCKIN HORRIBLE EVERYTHING IS NOW

I kinda thought so too. I tried doing the math in my head, I did it on a calculator, I got 15 both times. I would want to know since when did they change all that? What have we been learning this whole time?

Too much weed homie.

same wff

Alex May EXACTLY

EXACTLY!

I read and interpret it as 5 groups of 3.

I agree with you but both are mathematically equivalent and correct.

@@WillCamx the problem is, it is not useful

Me too. Cause my teachers reads 5x3 as 5 MULTIPLIED BY 3. So 5 is duplicated 3 times instead of the vice versa

Fester Blats, third graders? You are saying THIRD graders? Are you serious? Since when does it take more than 2 years of math to get past addition? That's fourth month material, first year. Usually around that time, children are also supposed to know that the operations of multiplication and addition are order-independent - if they aren't told, they will recognise that themselves within months. And well, thing is, the language itself is ambiguous because the operation is commutative. "5 times 3" does not really correspond to any particular real-world experience. It could mean "5 groups of 3" just as well as "5 repeated 3 times", with latter being merely rearranged to better correspond to mathematical notation, and linguists don't even know for certain which it is. Indeed with non-commutative operations, it's kind of common that the first operand is the primary one, while your (and teacher's) interpretation suggests that second operand is the primary operand of multiplication. Another point to be made is that the student is being punished for being resourceful while being correct, because adding 5 three times is easier than the other way around, and punishing that seems like a terrible idea. School is supposed to develop universal skills, like creativity, critical thinking, logical reasoning, ability to combine these skills to gather and process data and arrive at new conclusions. It's often observed that it doesn't succeed at doing this, that often it quenches creativity and has you memorise an ever growing set of recipes that allow you to handle specific situations, but not even slightly different ones, recipes that are quickly forgotten once they fall out of use, leaving the person rather helpless. If you were looking to see why that might be the case, you have a real tangible example right here. You might object, that if we don't punish creativity here, you're not gonna know whether they understood that not all operations are commutative. But that's the wrong way to go about it - you just need to test that separately by including test cases where they would mess up if they failed to grasp that.

+Snax But apparently spelling is.

Fester Blats Kids should understand that 3 x 5 is the same as 5 x 3. It's a property of multiplication that doesn't occur in division or subtraction. Teaching it this way would be more confusing, and could easily make some student think that the order matters.

The bottom line here for me is that if teachers want their students to adhere to "grammatical style" in mathematics, they need to be providing the style guide.

The video ignores the lesson where "repeated addition" is defined.

that is a very offensive thing to say

Michael Parker damn right

Michael Parker Agreed. Math is very much that. I still use it with different methods to get the answer. Common core, fix the problems.

Let's take that thinking and put it towards language. In language, we're constantly evolving it to make it easier to communicate with each other, and this has resulted in things like slang and text-speak. With language, you're taught the proper way and people come up with the slang and such themselves, and maybe eventually that becomes the norm. So now tell me, how is that any different than with math? You learn basic language components and structure early on in your life because it helps to have when you get to the more complicated parts of language later on, and that's the same with math. These are still the basics, and if you change the basics because it's easier for them now, they're going to have trouble later. You can still teach a kid that addition and multiplication problems can have the numbers switched and get the same answer, but letting them know that there's a reason later on to keep it consistent is important.

Rukifellth On that we can agree.

That was my understanding as well.

4+4 = 2+2+2+2 But I used to see it the way you do. I innately do. By I think it's better to learn it goes both ways because of the concept. Because 2+2=4. It's just grouping while skip- counting and pattern recognition. It's unfortunate that most teachers don't teach the critical thinking aspect of it. The foundational skills of problem solving vs "repeat after me" . Yes there are strict formulas...but most are not as strict as it seems they are teaching in public schools. And even worse....they are taking simple formulas that work great as they are, and complicate it for no good reason. It's a mental experiment of redirection. So glad I homeschool. Thank God. ❤

Right???? I hate common core it's too confusing

David Kinney so the way that was taught for generations, teaching multiplication tables, worked for many generations, isn't a proven way? Common core is all about dumbing down children.

The problem with common core is it takes basic simple math and makes it way more complicated than it needs to be .

tappedout300xc Holy fuck will everyone quit getting pissy about common core? Its wrong for the same reason you were wrong school for just writing the answer "You didn't show your work". Common Core standards are just trying to show kids an easier chain of logic to better understand arithmetics. It basically breaks down large numbers into bits so that adding to, subtracting from, dividing or multiplying these bits of numbers is easier than doing the same to the whole number. You do it every day when you make change with coins. Its just trying to teach numbers to be practical. So calm the fuck down about common core.

Coda ; Looks like your the one getting pisssy here . No need to get upset defending common core . It's not upsetting me talking against it . Now calm down and get yourself a Snickers bar .

Truth!

Great insight!! and until you said it i couldn't understand why common core was so strict in controling how children think. This is far scarier than I thought. WOW common core removes any independent thinking or "out of the box" ideas.

Great insight!! and until you said it i couldn't understand why common core was so strict in controling how children think. This is far scarier than I thought. WOW common core removes any independent thinking or "out of the box" ideas.

Yeah...teaching kids to obey alright, Canadaghost...the Fabian way, on the way to the New World Order. God I am glad where maths was concerned, I grew up in a conservative era..otherwise it would be a case of "You will be put under the bright light and will not move till you break down and agrees that 4+3= 62!!! Shades of the book "1984" again folks! Was written by Orwell as a dire warning...but no one took any notice, bar the a/holes who want to turn our lives upside down. Our teachers in primary school showed us straight away the different equations that made up for example 15. We didn't need to worry about a lengthy process to arrive at that obvious number. Yeah, I am an old fart, and learnt basic stuff in primary school that they now teach in high school...sheesh.

Brian Morris Well if you compare Orwell and 1984 to Huxley and Brave New World - Huxley was closer, as Orwell claimed our enslavment would be forced on us, and Huxley said it would be something we ended up begging for. Huxley was closer to the truth, all we need, as he suggested is a wonder drug to take all our troubles away, could say its already here as Opium drugs like Oxy etc. Hmmm

The second example of yours sounds a lot more clumsy, and sounds like the way someone would say the line if they were writing a script for Yoda. It sounds nothing like the way I would expect anyone to naturally talk. A better example would be the "don't end a sentence in a preposition" rule, that many teachers insist you follow. It ends up requiring you to beat around the bush to say simple sentences, and rearrange the preposition to a place that sounds so unnatural, and makes it so much more complicated to follow the sentence. You can end a sentence in a preposition, it is just called an adposition instead.

5x3=3+3+3+3+3 is 'repeated addition' defined by locals, textbooks, home & private schools. 5x3=5+5+5 marked wrong is traditional LOCAL lesson & grading policy because it is NOT teacher's lesson & instructions!! It is allowed when commutative property is taught when youngsters are ready! I am surprized people don't know that!! Must have NO memory of teachers marking papers!!!

No the child was actually right. It’s 5 multiplied 3 times. Common core is the bastardization of common syntax here.

​@@drygordspellweaver8761 The problem actually said 'solve 5x3 using 'repeated addition'. The method is what the TEACHER defines in the lesson! Kids understand 'repeated addition' as 5 groups of 3 objects as a meaningful model using objects like beans, better than memorizing abstract numbers '5 multiplied 3 times'! Even home schools define it as #groups of like size. Later, commutative property says 5x3=3x5 when teachers decide kids are ready! Standards like Common Core let teachers define classwork & methods like 'repeated addition'. You obviously have not read what Common Core standards actually require. "Debates around the question, "Is multiplication really repeated addition?" appeared on parent and teacher discussion forums in the mid-1990s"

@@FlashToso Tell me how many compilers you have optimized, or the chipset architectures you have modeled after your amazing breakthrough technique. You know absolutely nothing about multiplication or operational syntax. Keep you mouth shut on subjects you don't comprehend.

"Repeated addition" is defined by home schools as "number of groups times group size" or 5x3=3+3+3+3+3. They learn 5x3=5+5+5 later when ready.

Michael Toso Why aren't they ready at the time multiplication is learned?

No videos here Have you tried to communicate with youngsters? Keep it simple with an eye on learners' maturity.

Michael Toso I certainly wouldn't want to drop learners off in the deep end, but students will have already learned that 1+2=2+1. If you say multiplication works the same way, nobody will be confused.

No videos here I am willing to let the teacher define how to teach. The video title says "Why is 5+5+5=15 Wrong on Common Core Test". In this case the lesson is "repeated addition" and the video ignores that.

Home schools say "repeated addition" for 5x3=3+3+3+3+3 or "number of groups times group size". GOOGLE it.

If they feel like they have the right to determine one as wrong, they should be able to prove why it's wrong, with math. Having 2 roads leading to the same place, "the second road is the right one" is not a valid answer to why the first one is not.

BaZERGer The question is "What is the lesson?" We are talking about youngsters here and being consistent. keep it simple. They learn 5x3=5+5+5 later when ready.

It just boils down to the language. I messed up in my original post. 5 times 3. Means 3+3+3+3+3 = 15. It is actually accurate.

asmcriminaL Google "repeated addition" It is taught in home schools too. The idea is how to teach to youngsters.

If you got over 100%, then it seems your math was still off a bit. 😂

​@@vanhattfield8292what he meant was he got 0 out of 100 correct.

Awesome example of thinking outside of the box. My first math professor once said to our class "There is more than one way to get to Seattle." Math is the same way. As long as the answer is correct it doesn't matter which route you took.

my math teacher added to that the limitation to only use the ways that produce the correct answer all the times and not the ways that produce the correct answer only some of the times. He would give you the warning that his test will include the math problems that would require you to use the methods that are universally applicable for the same type of problem. He wouldn't downgrade harshly if there was usage of non-universal methods, but he's there to teach you to cope with all problems and not just the exceptions.

Magnus Anderson one function with 3 elements and another with 2, you're comparing apples with oranges, congratulations for not recognizing 2 different type of problems to solve

+AwoudeX you could factor it if it was nx-1. That was my point however, if your teacher wants you to use a solution that works all the time, you wouldnt be allowed to factor or use other solutions that make it a lot easier but dont always work.

+Magnus Anderson And yes, I realize maybe I shouldve thought of an ax^2+bx+c function, just didnt want to spend an extra little bit of time to do so.

I agree its shit I should burn my common core books

Actually its a good thing... its just that the teachers are all using it wrong >_>

its not a joke. its teaching on how to do it for ALL problems with in math. like multiplying u can do that in the standard why but that doesn't explain how u get your answer in a clear way (yes u can figure it out but I need a bit of thinking ). with common core, u can take the principle and apply it say 54x 24 4x4 = 16 4x50 = 200 20 x 4 = 80 and 20 x 50 = 1000 add them up which is 1000+ 200 +80+16 1200+ 80 +16 1280 + 16 = 1296 now using those steps u can multiply any number you can think of (this will change on how fast your able to do it) common core it to see why u do the things in math and not just saying "oh its always been like that". from what I've seen, most people don't number stand math and where number and ideas come from so common core teaches that. So no it's not dumb just executed poorly

That's taking the looong way around.

thats not the point of common core. yes it take forever but u got to know how to do the math before u can take sort cuts. u have to crawl before u walk and walk before u run.

Exactly that's how I interpret it It's asking for 5 3 times not 3 five times.

Not at all. PEDMAS reffers to parenthesese, exponents, division/multiplication, addition/subtraction. It say nothing about left or right. 5+(3+2)+2/5*5/2= in no way follows left to right. In fact because of the communitive property, it doesn't matter at all. draw a rectangle, 3" * 5", now cut it out and hold it in your hands. No matter if you hold it portariat, landscape or ascue, the size of the rectangle will not change.

Seems we're getting into semantics, but okay. PEMDAS doesn't explicitly call for execution from left to right, but is rather define an order of operations which would --otherwise be evaluated from left to right--. Fair enough. Let's take the 2÷5*5÷2 portion of your expression. The reason, is that PEMDAS is moot here, as multiplication and division have equal precedence. Executing the 2÷(5*5)÷2 (mult. first) yields a different result to 2÷5*5÷2 (from left to right). So if it "in no way follows left to right", how am I to know which order to execute this? While there are uncountable examples of commutativity (e.g. the example you gave), what do you do in situations where commutativity is not applicable? Perhaps I've misunderstood you? Apologies if so. (edit: spelling errors)

@@brettknoss486 After PEMDAS has been applied, the rule is the evaluate expressions from left to right. So the kid's answer is the correct interpretation of 5 x 3. If you want to bring commutative law into this, then both answers are correct and he/she should have been awarded full marks still.

@@_IronLion_ that is not a rule in any way shape or form. It can actually be more efficient to combine in different ways, or to switch yhe order, especially with algebra. The order simply doesn't affect the result, so this is not a rule.

2+2 can equal 5.

2+2=Fish

Noah Stevens how

It depends on what you take into account. If you add 2 and 2 you're by necessity the fifth thing in the equation. Another Example is 2+2 has to exist in context of what isn't those 4 things i.e. space thus being a fifth entity in the equation. 0 is equal to 1 when considered in isolation, 1 in contrast to 0 is 2 things and so on.

@@noahstevens3060 I would be really grateful if you could provide me the source of any one of the above stated examples. Also, if you would provide me the source, please make sure it has some valid proof.

At least it's not as bad as computerized testing: *Sorry, you got the wrong answer!* *You answered "15" - The correct answer is "15"* *Review your working and find where you went wrong.*

Ultimately kids are taught to follow directions, take orders. Not think. People cry conspiracy but just look at it! LOL..

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In high-school, I was nearly expelled for refusing to 'show my work' when factoring polynomials. I had developed a technique where I could do in my head, and it always worked. In Mr Takahashi's math class, everyone showed their work. I tried to 'show my work' by using my technique, but he couldn't follow it. "Do it the standard way!" The teacher was old-school, so my refusal was a discipline issue, not a mathematical one. I made an appeal to the school counselor to prove my point. They tested me by having my teacher write problems on the board, and I was to call out the solutions. He wrote over 250 problems, including some that were deliberately badly formed, which I caught as well. At one point, I was calling out answers as quickly as he could write the problems. He was mad. He didn't know how I was cheating! I had to present my technique to my math teacher, a school counselor and the Vice Principle that I had learned to factor in my head and to prove it, I walked them through the process. They all understood the process after that, and the VP thought it was a 'clever trick'. After a few more examples, my teacher just left the room, silently. I was excused from showing my work, but I still had to pretend to do it, for the sake of other kids! BTW, the 'trick' is to ignore some of the terms, and look for patterns of sums, differences and products of the whole numbers. If there is a 13 and a 42, then 6+7 and 6*7. You also know that everything is positive, as 6 + 7 = 13. If you had -5 and a -36 then 4-9 and 4*-9 is afoot. That -5 is telling us about the difference of the terms, the -36 tells us that one term is negative. 4+-9, 4*-9 = -5, -36. Sums, differences and products give clues as to the order of the terms and their signs. I was told this was cheating until I proved that it works.

I was put off maths for years by a moronic teacher because she always marked me down even though I got every answer right just because I layed it out vertically and not in a horizontal line like she wanted. Back then I thought "I got it right and its still not good enough, I tried so hard to get everything right, I'll never be good enough she hates me" because that's how little kids think. It ended with a massive argument between my dad and the school Turns out the only reason they could come up with was it 'wasn't policy to teach students to lay it out vertically until year 4' my dad was furious.

Ya man well if I order 3 hookers a piece for my 5 friends (me included of course), and 5 hookers a piece show up for 3 of us, someone who thinks like you is gonna be stuck with his hand.

2x-2 -2x2

Exactly ! It's the very first thing we learn when doing multiplication !

Oh dang, you beat me to it.

by teaching kids this common core way they might miss out on this rule and struggle with algebra

Yea, easy for you, now, knowing this fact. How did you learn it? By a teacher nailing it into you so you can copycat like a parrot, or in a way so you understand it clearly, so that it becomes ‘a part of you’. Remember, this is for the newcomers. They need to learn that 5+5+5=3+3+3+3+3 the hard way.

@@Dingsrud Woah dude it's been 3 years and I even forgot what the video was about XD. Anyway I never learned any maths of physics lessons by being nailed to. I learned every thing to the core and demanded proof for everything. I also learned the hard way .

Tithe3016 LOL. Math major?

Tithe3016 omg

Mercy Main cs major

Hackerman

The reason is actually pretty simple. Because (at least for me) multiplication and division are leaned around the same time, teaching young children that you can swap multiplication, but not division,can be confusing. Also, the simple term for 5x3 is "5 of 3", which again, could cause confusion in young kids. I see where you are coming from, but if you take into account all factors, you can see why it was done

Robbi M Welcome to nazi world order...

I can. And I'm a teacher!

KJBPSkipper Communists do the same thing, ya know. It's not just Nazis that wanna outlaw "wrongthink" just because they don't agree with it.

John King David Except that it wasn't poor or sloppy. It was completely reasonable, saved a shit ton of effort, and led to the same answer. We're not talking about Calculus AB or nuclear physics, this is multiplication and addition.

John King David I think you're the one with the head up your ass. Notice that the problem is 5 multiplied BY 3. The inverse would be 5 divided BY 3. I actually taught pre-calculus for five years and before that, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade maths in somewhat random order (due to a lack of teachers at the district I worked for) for a good eight years, so I would recognize this stuff is absolute insanity. No kid should have to be punished for actually using the right formula, much less using AN EQUIVALENT FORMULA. If the formula gets you the right answer every time and it's simplified and thus nets less possibility for mistakes, USE IT, or you're only making things harder for yourself. EQUIVALENT FORMULAS ARE INTERCHANGEABLE. That is why they are equivalent.

That's the same way I think about it as well, in English.

@@ChaosPod Nope, you is wrong. Saying apple 5× is (apple apple apple apple apple). So, 5×3 is (apple apple apple apple apple) (apple apple apple apple apple) (apple apple apple apple apple). Saying apple 3× would be (apple apple apple). 3×5 would be (apple apple apple) (apple apple apple) (apple apple apple) (apple apple apple) (apple apple apple). Lol! Not hard at all. You just need to conceptualize it.

@@munjerkucci So, 5×3 is (apple apple apple apple apple) (apple apple apple apple apple) (apple apple apple apple apple). But that's exactly what we were saying, a group of 5 apples 3 times. Like if you were counting by 5s it would be 5, 10, 15.

@@ChaosPod Got it. I misunderstood the original comment. 👍

No, not even close... Math is about understanding relationships between ideas.

that depends on your view point m8. Math is about many things, simplifying your equation for a specific solution, understanding the process to repeat that, using that understanding of common processes to solve more complex problem.

Dude, don't be so racist.

Zack Cyrus yeah, how dare she not teach algebra at the same time children are learning the basics of multiplication? She's treating them like elementary students. What a bitch.

+Zack Cyrus so wait, you make an assumption about this teacher, and then proceed to get angry at someone else for making an assumption about this teacher... we don't know if the teacher failed algebra, we also don't know if Ematched assumes EVERY teacher is female. you're just throwing around assumptions... don't be a hypocrite.

ISHERWOOD75 the answer is lamp

ISHERWOOD75: One too many hits on the bong?

Clearly The answer is the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

The fUDGE

I think I had this question in 7th grade

That happened to me in college....but not until then. Unfortunately k-12 was already forcing "my way or your wrong" compliance mentality in the early 2000s. But it was inspiring to have a teacher tell me I was doing it a more efficient way (in college) like you did...and they didn't understand until I explained my work. Lol But then they said they would use it and asked to show the rest of the class. One of the best moments of my entire experience in the educational system. But I'm extremely grateful I now get to homeschool my children. Praise Jesus ❤

Gavin Pinto I hate overcomplication

Gavin Pinto EXACTLY they're trying to drag everyone down that's America for yoi

I know right, smh

you Tony Stark profile pic makes your comment much more satisfying.

No. common core is basically wanting a kid in Alaska, California, Maine, and Florida to learn the same thing at the same time. So by the time they graduate HS, they all "know the same info." It's the curriculum the schools choose that causes the problem. The state standardize test don't care bout the "shortcuts" used, they just want the correct answer. But the teacher is stuck with the book lesson, and grading on that scale. So if a lesson states that aXb=b+b+b+..+b and the student shows the work as a+a+a..+a, then yes they are wrong. It's along the lines of this question "use a blue crayon and a yellow crayon to show what happens when you mix the two colors." You have a blue, yellow, and a green crayon. You know the end result is green, so you just use that. But you are wrong, because you didn't follow the directions. Silly, yes. But it's testing a skill, not an answer.

Your slightly incorrect. It is fundamental to the "common" number system. Matrix multiplication (for example) isn't commutative. That said, for the age level, the commutative property should be accounted for.

I wish I could hit like more than once, you beat me to the point. For simple multiplication such as this it is imperative that the student KNOW the commutative property, not be told it does not exist. This will certainly not prepare a student for later math classes, except to prepare them to fail. As an ME major I know the value of the commutative property, without it I could never solve any of the problems I get.

The commutative property guarantees the answer will be the same, regardless of whether it's ab or ba. However, 3x5 and 5x3 are not the same math problem. The former is "three instances of five added together", while the latter is "five instances of three added together". That principle is the basis of all further mathematics, and should always be taught before shortcuts such as the commutative property. Math isn't always about what the answer is, it's about the understanding the concepts behind the problems in order to understand how you arrive at the answer. You could tell a first grader "10 squared equals 100", and they could memorize that answer and spit it back to you whenever you asked them. Unless they understand WHY, though, then the entire thing is pointless. Instead of memorizing multiplication tables and spitting them back whenever asked, students are learning how to understand the concept behind multiplication before anything else. If anything is indefensible, its the fact that we used to teach simple memorization instead of teaching principles and concepts like we do now.

Mike L That is a linguistic approach to math, which is still wrong. Any problem (of this type) can be expressed either way (3x5 or 5x3) and communicate the same "story".

You're correct, if the "story" you're referring to is solely the answer. 3x5 and 5x3, although they yield the same answer, are not the same problem. Even still, the point is completely moot in relation to the story presented in the video, since the problem didn't ask "what is 5x3?", it asked the student to use the repeated addition strategy to solve 5x3 (source: the paper itself i.imgur.com/KtKNmXG.png). Using repeated addition, 5x3 is not 5+5+5. It's 3+3+3+3+3. The student failed to correctly use the strategy being stressed in the example, as is further explained by the student's other error visible in the image I have provided. Common Core stands, the student was wrong from both a conceptual perspective as well as the practical application of the concepts he/she was supposed to be using.

Except in your example, the two numbers represent different things: marriages vs. years. There's no indication that 5 and 3 are representing different things where the distinction would be relevant.

Newgame+ LD You also forgot about how in mixed expressions the order of operations is always first.

First "×" and "÷" then "+" and "-"

+Newgame+ LD Not in real life, though. But marking it wrong just because of that is definitely unfair to the student.

That's not what I meant. 2+3 and 3+2 both are 5. 5*3 and 3*5 are both 15.

BA = AB. A+B = B+A. A/B is not B/A. A-B is not B-A.

I think you've really lost (1 + 1 + 1) + (1 + 1 + 1) + (1 + 1 + 1) + (1 + 1 + 1) + (1 + 1 + 1) IQ points.

Meis smart no everyone here is stupid, you've lost [(5+3)+(3+5)]^0+(5+2)2

{2773√[372(х^40)]•3.7654e/i[286πr^2(345.56°)]-3.37e145}^0-{√25•-3-[e^(π•ι)]}

rop rop ok you win,I'm too lazy to enter that into a calculator

*+rop rop* Boooo! Eliminating everything by raising it to the 0 power is cheating!

That's what worked with my special needs kid honestly. I didn't learn that way myself. But it was a logical method. We actually would reinforce it in homeschool by practicing with simple logic skills to stretch the brain so-to-speak, then move into math. For multiplication grouping and counting are all you need IMO. I started teaching that concept very young to my child though, but that's why I think repeating it through the years from being a toddler is why even though moderate special needs he was able to comprehend it ahead of some of his class even. Meanwhile the teachers at the Charter school (at the time using a useless online method..) were not bothering to teach it at all...and I learned that others commonly expect kids to remember and regurgitate times tables w/o comprehending the concept. Now we do times tables because he likes the fun songs we found for that...and it was something we worked up to. A lot of public education is whack for the order in which they teach things as well. Some charter teachers told us to work on decimals and place value first, for example but I found this to be too confusing and not necessarily logical. So we skipped it, but learned mult., Division, fractions early, and when we came back around to the rest it was a breeze. Because the pathways for critical thinking were there, and it was less confusing with his brain a bit more developed. They teach history in odd ways too....all over the place and not as linear as it should be IMO. But also they lie a TON in history and social studies. Especially when considering how corrupt the process is with our government. The forefathers were not Christian, but anti-Christian and actually mounted attacks on real Christians like the Quakers. Christians also did not start the Spanish Missions...those were Catholics. But it's interesting how much they will twist things to create a narrative that works for them vs the people. God speed. ❤

or just because it's wrong

Stephanie I reckon it was a Ponzi scheme.

Stephanie Joobern Since when has moral right affected mathematical right? So, if you are happy, 2+2=5 because its happiness extra?

Ribbitgoesthedog Lastnamehereyeah It's just a joke, friend.

Stephanie Joobern You really should put a silly face after it, because its really easy to confuse with a real opinion. Not that it will work 100%, as the net is filled with idiots, but it its easier to distinguish from the sea of ineptitude. Thanks.

Try understanding the issue. This is TRADITIONAL local lesson & grading policy & Common Core is NOT dictating grading or lessons.

Best answer yet. Correct interpretation.

Are you ignoring the lesson?

PERFECT explanation; 5 times 3 equals 5 added together three times which is logically pictured as 5 + 5 + 5; common core aka liberal math... sucks.

*commutative

Just as traditional math teaching, Math is taught step by step & commutative property is taught when the teacher decides usually in the same year!

How tf; there is nothing to distinguish like parenthesis therefore there is no correlation to commutative property.

ItsJugu Have you gone through common core or what?

Aqib Shah Yes, I'm a freshman in high school rn, and I was talking about distributive property sorry about that.

omfg this comment got me wheezing😂

5x5x5=125 though.

should be: kid 5+5+5=15

That's the point dude

That would be 5 cubed.

100

Strict definition is an exercise in semantics. Because given the property A * B = B * A; the strict definition that you described is semantically equivalent to 3 sets of 5. The strict definition would be an important nuance for linear algebra but for this application; penalizing the child for a disagreement over semantics is a real dick move.

Shit has 4 letters so why put "Sh" then 3 more asterisks?

Both ARE the same. Oh wait, we're not talking about grammar. ;)

If he's British, he *might* type it as shite, which is an acceptable spelling. :D

Im gonna assume hes an alien

DivineArtemis well they thought you shit. Cause you're dumb as hell . too dumb to see the big picture

This is "repeated addition" used in home schools. GOOGLE IT!!

They do - but at a later age, and because they haven't been taught this, oh, shit, they're fucking dangerous, discourage them!

The same rectangle, yes, but a very different matrix.

You might try actually reading the grade level standards in math for, say, K-3 on multiplication and see when students are taught that addition and multiplication are commutative. Also, check to see where they're taught that 3 x 5 = 5 + 5 + 5 and NEVER 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3. You'll have a very long search in front of you, since that's not claimed in the Common Core at all. You're seeing the results of mathematically weak teachers following a teachers' manual from a commercially-published textbook series like robots instead of like teachers.

WoW,Did't know that *Sarcasm*

ikr c o m m u t a t i v e p r o p e r t y

French hFs the mark was deducted in a question designed to check understanding of how to read the multiplication operator left to right - the entire purpose of that expanding step. By teaching students to read it in one way, we're laying the groundwork for them to understand distributivity easier.

Allan Song Thank you

because it DOESNT MATTER. They arent teaching them just how to find the correct answer, but how to find it the correct way within the curriculum. you cant teach new stuff if they arent doing old stuff correctly.

having an actual structure to learning, instead of just memorizing a multiplication table is better. period. using your brain to think instead of just memorize answers leads to better educated, more intelligent students. its the OPPOSITE of what youre describing. instead of indoctrinating them with the answers without telling them how those answers are arrived at, its teaching students to THINK and process the information rather that regurgitate an answer. sure, there is a framework and it seems stupid to mark them wrong for arriving at the wrong answer the wrong way, but teaching people to arrive at an answer in a way that the next lesson builds upon, and the next lesson after that, etc etc leads to, like i said, a better education. no, its not the way you were taught, but american schools suck. they do. we are trying to improve that, and a more structured, more intuitive system is what other countries who have far better educations systems have been using for a long time. This really speaks of American prejudice and xenophobia. this is different than what i know, i dont understand it, therefore is it wrong. no. you are wrong. your hair-brained tinfoil hat government conspiracy malarkey is indicative of this.

You are 100% correct

My thought exactly!

But wait...IT GETS BETTER. They get partial points for doing the problem correctly, but coming up with a wrong answer.

Alexander Damjanovich But Alex, it was neither 5x3 OR 3x5! That was not what was done. If you see a car, and you say its a car, you are correct. If you see a red car and call it a blue car, you are wrong. You are talking about the wrong problem. 15 IS INDEED an acceptable answer. But if you turn it to 5+5+5, it is not. 5x3 is very specificly 3+3+3+3+3. It is very specificly wrong if you write it as 5+5+5. There is, and cannot be a mistake about that.

EbonyBunny1 You are 100% wrong, since Alex there was not correct.

Youngsters are taught math that way. This is "repeated addition" a home school method.

+Michael Torso But why is it graded so strictly? What exactly is wrong with the given answer? If the student thinks, when seeing 5×3, "The number 5, three times" then this is a perfectly valid solution.

MrYogurtGuy Teachers choose lessons, methods and grading. www.homeschoolmath.net/teaching/md/multiplication-repeated-addition.php

im glad i dont have to go through this and im also glad i dont plan to put any kids through this. the way i see it, doesnt matter what "grouping" method its written as i always make the rounder number be the one within the groups. 3x5 and 5x3 will always be 5+5+5 beacuse its far easier to count by 5s than 3s.

Miner Fox this is just one method used. The specific methods are determined by teachers and textbooks. This is also in home schools.

Video is complaining about TRADITIONAL lesson & grading policy.

I mean , the awnser is the fucking same either way whats the fucking problem

Coggy Sprockets 5x=x+x+x+x+x if x=3 5x3=3+3+3+3+3.If I'm writing a list of items I'd write 2xapple 3xbanana not applex2 bananax3 Sharon Jones Using different methods is very important as it may be easier sometimes to use one method rather than another and one method could demonstrate higher understanding than some easier method. In one of my University courses, we weren't allowed to use one method unless it was specifically stated you could as it made the questions a lot easier.

dalek1099 when I'm making a parts list. I always list the items first and follow it with x2, x3, etc. It's how we doing it at work and it's the norm in my area. The item is more important than the number and that's also how the computer program displays it on our screen and print outs. My point is that either way is correct. As long as the answer is correct, it doesn't matter how you got it. Unless the teacher is grading them on the student's ability to learn the method. I've had teachers accept wrong answers as long as the method was correct. Never understood how that was acceptable in an engineering college.

That's bullshit.

fa11234 But who would benefit from an unskilled labor force? There's no motive there.

James Rae Corporations and governments benefit tremendously. Schools are churning out brain-dead worker bees by the millions. Corp. and gov. want nothing to do with critical thinking individuals, they want passive idiots who follow orders.

James Rae Look into the Prussian schooling system.

Capitalism benefits. Just look at McGraw Hill or Pearson.

Arron Firestine Ok, but HOW do Democrats benefit? I could say that Democrats are poisoning the water to kill babies, but that's unfounded if it doesn't benefit them. Both parties make money from corporations and corporations make money from the labor force. Stronger labor force = more profits for corporations = more profits for shitty politicians. If anything, both parties should want a stronger labor force because they'll make more.

But that IS the heart of education. I haven't been in primary school in 3 decades but we were taught the times tables by rote. We got questions fired at us and if we got them wrong it was a metal ruler over the hands, age 7. School education = indoctrination. I wish it were the way you said

And what if the teacher left you to hopefully learn your tables? I bet you wouldn't have bothered.

Omuraspencer Our current education system was created during the industrial revolution, so it was likely created to condition us into being mindless obedient slaves to authority. And yet more people think Obama's a lizard than a realistic conspiracy like this smh

One of the biggest hurdles people face in advanced mathematics and physics, and computer science, to be honest, is that they are full of bad habits and lack the ability to think. Indoctrination is great for ensuring people will fill in the right bubbles in a scan sheet government test at school, it is a terrible at generating people that can learn advanced material, material where there is no rote approach you can drill them on.

It's ironic but I understand what they're trying to lead to with that way of teaching multiplication. In 10 to 15 more years we will have a generation of high school students able to talk about heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Or program their computer as routinely as we write a spreadsheet .

Sadly that is what common core is doing. When I was growing up, as long as you get to the answer in a logical and efficient manner you were fine. Adding Five Threes together seems like the inferior option to me, since it takes longer. I was helping my sister in law with this crap a few years ago. I have seen the idiocy first hand. Assiging PEMDAS problems without explaining PEMDAS. Sorry for the angry rant, common core just really pisses me off.

TrackHead Studios It's the opposite of being a robot. Common Core and the teacher were checking for the understanding of a concept as opposed to accepting a robotic answer. Think before you comment. This is what is being taught: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E6yk9O43t3c.html

Chilly Willy Give me a day or two to consider before I reply (I'll have to reboot my 'robot' brain first so I might employ "the understanding of a concept.") ;)

Chilly Willy Understanding of what concept? Multiplication is commutative so the answer was indisputably right. The 5x3=3+3+3+3+3 is used in English speaking countries, in Italy (for example) the preferred formula is the one the kid wrote, although both can be used (look it up on Wikipedia if you don't believe me)

GREAT GREAT POINT North Destiny. Thanks for backing me up... and with the proper vocabulary even: commutative. Nicely done. Rock on.

Jiggleworth22 also, its really ambiguous to say that 5x3 is "five times three" because it can also be "five multiplied by 3", also it is important to point out that outside of US (idk if in UK its also the X times X thing) 5x3 is said as 5 three times, which makes this whole thing even more stupid.

Adirbal And lets not forget the most important fact. That 5x3=(5)x3. Because x and / apply to the whole, they always modify everything that comes before them, not after.

Adirbal I'm Australian and I was taught 5x3 would be 5 multiplied by 3, not 5 lots of 3. I think that was wrong though (my primary school teachers sucked at math) because once you get to algebra 5x means 5 lots of x, not 5 mulplied by x. If the notation is consistent then the first number has to always be the multiplier (ie the number of groups).

lancer D 5x is no different. 5x meaning 5 x's and 5x as x 5's is the same. Because multiplication is commutative. The reason we take it as 5 x's is because it is an unknown, so we cannot write the other way around since we do not know how much x is.

lancer D both 5 lots of x and 5 multiplied by x are perfectly fine, so it's the same as basic multiplication as you described

same

Oh trust me from this 11th grader...it gets worse

The 'repeated addition' definition by western nations says 5x3=5 groups of 3 or 5x3=3+3+3+3+3. Commutative property says 5x3 =3x5 & is taught when teachers decide kids are ready.

Exactly, shouldnt matter what you put as long as it still equals 15 (or the answer)

Congratulations Sadpants, Atel and Theo. You just proved your ignorance of mathematics. 5*3 is read as 5 groups of 3 which is why the student was to write 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 15. This distinction becomes important in matrix algebra, but since y'all haven't taken matrix algebra you don't know this. Your picking apart the curriculum which was written by people who actually know WTF they are talking about. They are teaching kids this so they'll have this idea down beforehand. 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 15 but the problem wasn't 15 groups of 1, but 5 groups of 3.

I would like someone to write out the addition expansion of the following multiplication problem: 78546298012438723987234 x 4

Sadpants McGee no it's not the teacher. She was told to teach in this common core way so if she marked it right (which it is right) she would be doing her job wrong. It's the common core method that's stupid

Anon54387 gosh then why do they say “use different strategies”

How come this comment has 34 likes when it's talking about mathematics being a precise language while stating the commutative property for addition when the video is about multiplication? I guess people simply aren't willing to read carefully enough and just "like" what ever "sounds right". Your first sentence makes it sound as if there is " THE commutative property" for every binary operation - which would be false. Thereby your very comment isn't precise enough even though multiplication does also have the commutative property.

Dominik Gerndt, because those who liked it are correct and you are ignorant. Commutative Addition and Commutative Multiplication are identical.. 4x3=3x4 and 3x4=4x3. Learn some math before trying to tell others their correct answer is incorrect. You could have googled this in seconds instead of coming here posting wrong information.

Douglas Frazier It seems the information provided in this video and available to the schoolchildren is different. Math is a precise language, and the correct answer is precisely 3+3+3+3+3. If the teacher hasnt taught that, then thats the problem right there. But what the teacher should have taught, is to ALWAYS do it the precise and defined way, at least in school, and then let the kids do their own way after school, if they wish. There should not be a sufficiently defined manner, if there is a need for it, then the teacher has not taught properly. If the teacher has taught properly, then it is the fault of the student who hasnt learned it properly.

Multiplication also adheres to the commutative property, it only doesn't apply when there is also a arithmetic function in the statement so (8+1)*2 is not equal to 8+(1*2) but that is why there's a formal order of operations that always applies absent parenthesis to indicate otherwise. He is correct, the commutative property dictates that a*b = b*a, understanding the commutative property along with when it applies is an essential tool in advanced algebra, discrete mathematics, trig, and calculus. You do kids no favors teaching them things that must later be unlearned. As for evaluating correctly to 4-5 verses 5-4 is a bad example. Subtraction written that way is short hand for addition using negative numbers the commutative property doesn't apply there because you're essentially saying -4 is equal to -5, the way 5-4 should be written is 5+(-4), now suddenly we see that the commutative property does indeed still apply to subtraction. 5+(-4) = 1 = (-4)+5 All three statements are indeed equivalent.

no, a+b=c duh

Too bad U.S. adults think learning to be mindless human calculator more important than being a flexible thinking problem solver. They can't even ask what the problem says or what the lesson is!

Not when a and b are matrices, so "common" is misleading. The idea is to teach kids math literacy, not arithmetic: the question is about what the statement says, not what it evaluates to.

Chase Dowling What?

Sergio Payan matrix multiplication isn't commutative like alot of other Operations, ie for matrices A and B AB is not equal to BA

yung PVRP Is this video based on matrix multiplication??

Sergio Payan no, I was just explaining chases point

Disagree. Teaching a student what the question actually _means,_ and teaching the student that asking the question a different way can mean getting to the answer a different way is immensely valuable... and will SAVE them a lot of grief and frustration when they get to much harder concepts down the road. Teaching students _how_ to think and not just _what_ to think is far more "efficient" than just telling them, as you apparently would, that 5X3 is the exact same things as 3X5. Had you been given an "efficient" education when you were younger, you'd already understand this. We're trying to help these kids avoid thinking in circles like you're doing when they're your age.

Jesse Cole lol

Efficiency... Interesting you use that word as America's education system is anything but efficient. Yes, you're right that it "teaches" students how to think, but that's the problem. It TELLS them how to think, not letting them apply their own methods to solve issues. (Being a CSE Major, I have found my own education has crippled my ability to think through solutions.) The education system is so normalized that students who don't learn in a conventional environment are lost, just like I was. I wasn't a good student, not from lack of trying but because the system I attended forced a singe learning method on me that was highly inefficient and extremely stressful for both myself and my father. It's a system that forces everyone into a tiny box and cuts off the bits that won't go in or don't fit, and it's not a good system. It never was, but that's the way it's been and that's reason enough to keep it around in the eyes of politicians and boards of education. I'm also finding as I've grown older that people think kids are stupid, which isn't true. Not in any sense of the word. In fact, they're smarter than most adults but the "old guard" (meaning adults like you and I) actively, and sometimes intentionally, stifle that intelligence. Everywhere I look, I find some mention about how kids need guidelines, rules, and strict enforcement. How students need to adhere to a set of standards and anyone not meeting them is not only lost in the dust, but considered a complete dunce. Like learning a different way or having a different method from "the norm" is somehow a mark of shame or rebellion against a system that is, in honesty, completely broken. Kids aren't stupid, they're just inexperienced. Maybe we should treat them like that instead of labeling them "dunce" until further notice. Back to the immediate matter: 5x3 = 3x5, this is simple math equivalency. I ask you this then: is it more efficient to think "Oh, it's 5 groups of three" or "three groups of 5 = five groups of three, so I can do three groups of five and get the same answer." Do remember: This is math, not English. It shouldn't have been marked wrong, despite what "educators" think. If they wanted the student to think of it a different way, then make a note or tell them, but don't mark a right answer wrong because the method wasn't what was expected. In Computer Science there are literally hundreds of ways of doing one action. Some long, some short, all are considered right because they work. Math should be the same way; If you have a method that works, use it. Rome wasn't built in a day, nor by politicians. P.S. Sorry for being wordy, but this is something I'm rather passionate about.

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Scors4 Couldn't agree more! But I think that's changing, maybe in the next 20 years or so we'll be changing how children are schooled. The governments won't change it, of course, but the private sector will improve education methods, and then public schools should follow suit.

JCaesar Another idiot that doesn't know what common core is.

kubush I know it has held back students because of it. You're the idiot here defending this broken program. You probably have a kid that relied on it while all the smarter kids were passing grades, but couldn't advance because yours was falling behind.

kubush. Anyone who believes that senceability can come from nonsense. Is the stupid idiot.

Florida did so to the detriment of Florida's kids. Not conditioning kids how to more easily handle more andvanced math can't be good thing. this question was *not* testing the kids comprehension of the commutative properties of multiplication in the simplest of terms, if the event it where about that both answers would have been correct

JCaesar That not how common core works. Common core is actually a higher set of standards than what states had before. You call it a broken program yet you have no clue what it is and how it functions.

Dat Fancy I finished third grade 7 years ago

Dat Fancy my son already did. Have been homeschooling him sense. And he's back to being advanced because of it.

TheSnapback Same

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M S That's why I never liked this type of math

Allen Cunningham ... what? How is he dumb for pointing out an error in the system.

Ok Allen, that is why I have a degree in applied mathematics, and I work in data science. Yup, I have no analytical thinking skills, no reading skills, no attention span. This is mathematics we are talking about. There are many ways to reach the correct answer. In fact, your entire statement is one giant contradiction. By telling a kid that they were wrong for not being a good little drone that follows directions, even though the method was sound logically is doing the exact opposite of what you claim to support. From now on, this kid will probably always just follow directions and do what is told of them, regardless if they were smart enough to figure out a different way to do a problem. When I was a kid, math teachers used to praise us for "discovering" a different way to approach a problem, and they often encouraged it. This is the kind of environment that promotes critical thinking. Telling kids this is the only way you can do something, and you are wrong if you dont do it the way I told you, squashes critical thinking. As someone that has been around for quite some time, I can tell you that more and more college grads that come into the field possess absolutely no critical thinking skills what so ever. They want to be told exactly what to do, and when they don't know the answer to a problem, their only method of solving it is to Google it. I am not joking either, and if Google does not have the answer for them, they are like a lost puppy. As I said, this type of environment that you are so fond of does the exact opposite of what you claim. I have watched each new batch of college grads come and go, and recently, the lack of critical thinking skills is staggering.

"Common core is really dumb.." Talk about a lack of critical thinking. This isn't common core. You're calling something dumb that you have no clue about. Very "analytical" of you. Smh.

This is common core math...but ok, it isn't common core.

The TEACHER defines multiplication as 'repeated addition' form of mutiplication! We are talking about THIRD graders, NOT programmers!!!!

@@FlashToso 'repeated addition' is not the problem. That's basic understanding of multiplication regardless of how old one is. The problem is that the teacher is dumb and reversed the order. 5 times 3 is the number 5 added to itself 3 times. The teacher is saying it's the number 3 added to itself 5 times.

@@drygordspellweaver8761 the teacher defined 'repeated addition' in the LESSON & was probably following the textbooks! WHY would you want to insult the teacher & stress the children like parents do by ignoring the lesson!

@@FlashToso I don't care who created the 'lesson'. It's idiotic and anyone who teaches it is guilty of making people dumber. Seems like you just want to argue about anything at random without making any sense or logical argument.

@@drygordspellweaver8761 Why no discussion about strengthening local control with more & better choices?

dumbassery gone mad. I was queuing for a checkout with I think it was two or three items (my lunch) when the registers went down. The cashier went into a full-blown panic because I DARED to present her with my items and the total of my purchase which was £2, and I presented her with a £5 note. SHE SEEMED UNABLE TO WORK OUT HOW MUCH CHANGE TO GIVE ME. In fact, she called for her MANAGER to come out with a CALCULATOR. I weep for the species.

Yep, next will be a pile of shit in a mailbox somewhere

Joshverd I did

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Yeah I was watching comic books and video game lets plays...fuck u google

I was watching the Cinema Snob review a porno spoof, and this was in my recommended. Maybe if it wasn't *almost TWO YEARS OLD*, it'd have some relevance. Google must be practicing necromancy or something, raising vids from the dead and cramming them into our recommended lists?

It's a fucking science test, not a spelling test. The teacher should have just written a note on your assignment that tells you that you spelled false wrong.

no dummy, you were supposed to circle true or false. that's why.

Seth Portland then why didn't she mark my true ones wrong

Seth Portland Even if you were supposed to circle the answer, I'm pretty sure any teacher still would've given the marks for the questions.

I call bullshit.

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