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It’s finally sinking in. California State Tests are next week and it’s “do-or-die” for my kids (well, “die” may be overstating it a bit). At this point, if you they don’t know how to factor, how to find the solution to a system of linear inequalities, or how to calculate the airborne time of a falling projectile, it’s too late.