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dixiegrrrrl

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6. There's another way to see it.
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 09:22 PM
Jun 2019

One scene in the Wire, that great tv series about drugs in Baltimore, has the 8-9 year kid having problems wioth his math homework, and his older brother is trying to help him. The older brother, not even 20 I think, is selling drugs in the projects they live in.

So the multiplication is giving the little kid fits, it's one of those storybook .." If John has 5 apples and Bill has 3 times as many, etc"
kid can;t relate to it.
the older brother gives him the same problem in drug money talk.
"Of 6 (drug) fiends buy........."
and the kids snaps immediately with the answer,
Because, he says," if you don't have the count right when the gang comes to collect your money, they will kill you, so you GOTTA have the count right."

Trump can track money numbers when it is important to him.

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