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Make Equal Groups - Sharing Lesson

This Year 2 Make Equal Groups - Sharing lesson covers the prior learning of sharing equally, before moving onto the main skill of sharing objects equally between groups.

The lesson starts with a prior learning worksheet to check pupils’ understanding. The interactive lesson slides recap the prior learning before moving on to the main skill. Children can then practise further by completing the activities and can extend their learning by completing an engaging extension task.

National Curriculum Objectives Mathematics Year 2: (2C6)  Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables, including recognising odd and even numbers

Mathematics Year 2: (2C7)  Calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division within the multiplication tables and write them using the multiplication (×), division (÷) and equals (=) signs

Mathematics Year 2: (2C8)  Solve problems involving multiplication and division, using materials, arrays, repeated addition, mental methods, and multiplication and division facts, including problems in contexts

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These lesson slides guides pupils through the prior learning of sharing equally, before moving onto the main skill of make equal groups - sharing. There are a number of questions to check pupils' understanding throughout.

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This powerpoint can be used to model the questions that the children will complete on the Varied Fluency and Reasoning & Problem Solving worksheets as part of this lesson.

These are the same as the lesson slides on Classroom Secrets. You can assign this as an activity for pupils to access individually in school or remotely from home.

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Interactive Activity

This Year 1 Sharing Equally Game aims to support pupils' basic knowledge of division.

Video Tutorial

In this Sharing Equally Video Tutorial, Katie shows how to share objects into groups equally.

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Supporting Activities

This Make Equal Groups - Sharing supporting activities sheet contains suggestions for additional tasks you might wish to use to support pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the lesson.

2 Varied Fluency

This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency questions for pupils to practise the main skill of this lesson.

This Year 2 Make Equal Groups Sharing activity checks pupils' understanding of sharing objects into equal groups.

2 Reasoning & Problem Solving

This make equal groups - sharing extension task includes a challenge activity which can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the make equal groups - sharing lesson.

Mixed Practice

This worksheet includes varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving questions for pupils to practise the main skill of make equal groups - sharing.

This differentiated worksheet includes reasoning and problem solving questions to support the teaching of this step.

Discussion Problem

This worksheet includes two discussion problems which can be used in pairs or small groups to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in this lesson.

This Year 2 Make Equal Groups – Sharing Maths Challenge checks pupils’ understanding of sharing numbers into equal groups.

This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and reasoning and problem solving questions to support the teaching of this step.

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Introduce children to division with this PowerPoint. They must help various characters to share out their items equally amongst friends. After practising with a few examples, children will then learn about the division symbol and how to use it to write division number sentences.

• Key Stage: Key Stage 1
• Subject: Maths
• Topic: Multiplication & Division
• Topic Group: Calculations
• Year(s): Year 2
• Media Type: PowerPoint
• Resource Type: PowerPoint
• Last Updated: 31/10/2023
• Resource Code: M1PAT55
• Curriculum Point(s): Solve problems involving multiplication and division, using materials, arrays, repeated addition, mental methods, and multiplication and division facts, including problems in contexts.

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45 year 2 maths questions

Learn how to master year 2 maths word problems with these 45 maths questions! Answers included.

Author Michelle Griczika

Published February 2024

• Key takeaways
• Addition & Subtraction : Adding and subtracting numbers is like solving puzzles and helps us with real-life situations.
• Word Problems : Solving word problems makes maths fun and helps us become better readers and problem solvers.
• Place Value : Understanding place value helps us read and write numbers correctly and compare their values.
• Measurement & Time : Measuring objects and telling time help us understand the world around us and manage our daily routines.
• Geometry (Shapes) : Recognizing shapes and their properties helps us see the world in a new way and understand how things are put together.

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• Addition and Subtraction
• Word Problems
• Place Value
• Geometry (Shapes)

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• We can use addition and subtraction to determine how many cookies are left in a jar, how many friends are on the playground, or even how many apples are in a basket.
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• Shapes are like building blocks of the world around us. We can learn about squares, triangles, and circles by looking at objects we see every day. It’s like being a shape detective, finding out how many sides and corners they have, and how they fit together like puzzle pieces in year 2 maths questions.

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Year 2 - Division by sharing

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Two resources for division by sharing (WRM Small Step - Making equal groups - sharing). Both resources differentiated 3 way.

First resource is for a practical lesson using where the children share cubes out to solve the division questions. A useful visual worksheet to support this.

The second resource is a problem solving lesson based on division by sharing. The first 2 levels of differentiation are on word problems. The higher level activity is a mastery activity based on White Rose Maths.

Activities are differentiated by Get Set (LA), Ready to Rock (MA) and Digging Deeper (HA).

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Loved this resource, I am tutoring a year 2 SEN student and she loved this resource. We shared pasta between cups. Lovely practical lesson that worked even online. Thank you :)

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A very useful, practical task for my pupils who are really struggling to grasp the concept of division. Thank you!

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Really useful - have to admit I am tutoring an SEN year 8 and magpied word problems to add to a power point.

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He recalls an interview with a Los Angeles Times reporter who asked him something about how he'd work to market the city in such a trying time.

"The best way to solve our PR problem is to fix the damn problem," the executive was quoted as saying in that piece headlined "Out of money, Detroit calls it quits." He added the bankruptcy was "without a doubt" the best way forward.

It was a message he said he'd realized was true in that moment and continued to repeat publicly in the weeks ahead. Fast-forward about a decade and that problem, in many ways, has been fixed.

And Baruah — who'd served as U.S. Small Business Administration administrator under President George W. Bush before arriving to lead one of the nation's largest business chambers in 2010 — deserves a fair share of credit for his willingness to articulate problems and offer solutions.

Look no further than April's NFL draft — the enthusiasm, the positive media coverage and the "huge economic boost" that resulted — for proof the city is back on solid ground, the executive said.

"Essentially the national media has declared Detroit's comeback done, that we have achieved comeback status," Baruah said. "It's no longer a wish. It's no longer something we are striving for. But we have achieved a comeback."

Baruah, 59, spent years bouncing between Portland, Oregon, and Washington, D.C., before coming to Detroit. He was a corporate consultant, and later took a post as an assistant secretary of commerce under Bush prior to rising to SBA administrator. He served under President George H. W. Bush and Republican Sen. Bob Packwood of Oregon early in his career.

Baruah's downtown office wall, not surprisingly, includes photos of George W. Bush and other national political leaders. It's not hard to deduce who his true political hero is, though, considering the massive photograph of President Gerald R. Ford looming over his desk.

"He's been an inspiration to me because he's not flashy," Baruah said. "You know, he just kind of quietly did what he thought was the right thing. And politically, he's my hero as well, because I am still a fan of the flaming moderate. I am still a fan of neither perspective, right or left, gets it right all the time."

Baruah leads an organization that represents southeast Michigan businesses ranging from small startups to global automakers. Its MICHauto specializes in growing the state's auto industry. And it organizes the nationally known Mackinac Policy Conference, attracting heavy-hitting political and business leaders each year.

Matt Elliott, president of Bank of America Michigan and chair of the chamber's board, credits Baruah for pushing the organization beyond traditional business advocacy. He's set his sights high, Elliott said, advocating for big-picture statewide issues including tech development and making the case for racial justice and equity programs.

An outsider's perspective helps, Elliott added: "It's important to contextualize what's going on in Michigan but also have a broader point of view, to in some cases understand the art of the possible."

The problem-solving Baruah mentioned to the LA Times back in that 2013 interview isn't finished. He's got three big Michigan challenges on his mind right now — the return-to-office environment, the auto industry's pivot to electrification and improving Michigan's lagging educational attainment.

Still, Baruah said he doesn't want to lose sight of how far the city and region have come since that bankruptcy and those tough years before: "We are now a city of import. We are no longer a city of pity. And it only took us a decade and a half and a lot of sweat, and a lot of hard work, and a lot of money."

Essentially the national media has declared Detroit's comeback done, that we have achieved comeback status. It's no longer a wish. It's no longer something we are striving for. But we have achieved a comeback.

Sandy Baruah

Occupation: President and CEO of the Detroit Regional Chamber

Education: Bachelor of Science from University of Oregon, Master of Business Administration from Willamette University

Family: Wife Lisa, son Isaac

Why honored: Leading the Detroit area's business community into a new era for the city

102-year-old WWII vet from New York dies while traveling to D-Day ceremony in France

A 102-year-old World War II Navy veteran from New York died while traveling to France to take part in a ceremony to honor the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion that turned the tide of the war toward Allied victory.

Robert Persichitti was traveling to Normandy by ship with a veterans group, headed to the site of the historic June 6, 1944, war milestone.

On the ship, he suffered a medical episode and was airlifted to a hospital in Germany, where he died, Richard Stewart, the president of veteran organization Honor Flight Rochester, told NBC News on Thursday.

Stewart said he received the call informing him of Persichitti’s death on Friday — news no one expected as “he was active, sharp as a tack, right up [to the end].”

“His health was age appropriately very good up to 102. He had some heart problems, but he checked with his doctor, who said, ‘Absolutely go on the trip,’” Stewart said. “He passed away peacefully, he was around people.”

“The doctor found some Frank Sinatra music, which was his favorite,” Stewart added.

Persichitti, of Fairport, New York, was described as a “humble” man who “had a great life.”

His vibrant, centurylong journey began with his childhood in the Allegheny Mountains outside of Pittsburgh. He lived through the Great Depression, joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, and when World War II broke out he enlisted in the Navy, spending a year in New York City attending radio school and learning Morse code.

He spent 15 months at sea assigned to the command ship USS Eldorado in the Pacific as a junior radio operator through the end of the war, serving in Okinawa, Iwo Jima and Guam, Stewart said.

He witnessed the historic moment Marines raised the American flag atop Mount Suribachi during the battle of Iwo Jima in February 1945 — which was captured by photographer Joe Rosenthal and became one of the most iconic images of the war, Stars and Stripes reported.

He returned to Mount Suribachi in 2019 as part of a veterans program with the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, telling a Stars and Stripes reporter at the time, “When I got on the island today, I just broke down.”

Persichitti was named to the New York state Senate’s Veterans Hall of Fame in 2020.

After the war, he settled in Rochester, New York, where he spent 40 years as a shop teacher with the Rochester City School District, teaching carpentry and other technical skills to students, and where he joined Honor Flight Rochester, which takes veterans to visit D.C. memorials.

In 2015, he published the autobiography “Building an American Life.”

He also regularly visited students in Pittsford, New York, near Rochester, to speak about World War II. In April, the Pittsford Central School District shared photos of students celebrating Persichitti’s 102nd birthday.

Persichitti was an active part of Honor Flight Rochester, and most recently attended events in April and May, shaking the hands of hundreds of veterans.

“When Bob said he was going to be someplace to do an event to help spread the word with Honor Flight, he was there, he’d be in his orange shirt. He was a great volunteer for us,” Stewart said. “I think we all had every intention that if he got back from his Normandy trip on Father’s Day, he would have been there in June, shaking hands.”

Stewart noted that Persichitti’s wife had preceded him in death and he had no children.

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Solving the macOS Installer’s “Failed to Personalize” Error with New Firmware

Kudos to user LALicata on TidBITS Talk for sharing a macOS update solution that isn’t widely available on the Internet. Attempting to update an M2 16-inch MacBook Pro from macOS 13.6 Ventura to any subsequent version of Ventura or macOS 14.5 Sonoma always resulted in a “Failed to personalize” error.

This error pops up quickly in Internet searches, and several articles offer possible fixes, including many old standbys:

• Restart your Mac
• Make sure your Internet connection is working
• Clear sufficient space on your Mac
• Repair the boot drive with Disk Utility
• Employ the full installer from the Mac App Store
• Boot into Safe Mode before installing
• Install from macOS Recovery
• Use a bootable USB installer
• Erase the Mac from Recovery Assistant or iCloud before reinstalling

Those are all reasonable troubleshooting steps, but none solved the problem. Apple’s support reps kept focusing on the Internet connection under the assumption that the Mac couldn’t reach a necessary Apple server during the installation process. However, once LALicata mentioned that an M1 MacBook Air was able to download and install macOS updates with no problem, they focused on the Mac itself and eventually provided the solution, which was to restore the MacBook Pro to factory settings using Apple Configurator, which writes a fresh copy of the firmware to the Mac.

Firmware Updates

Typically, Mac firmware is updated whenever a new version of macOS is installed, but if something goes wrong in the process, the Mac can be left with outdated firmware. When automatic firmware updates fail, the solution is to “revive” or “restore” the Mac using another Mac running macOS 12 Monterey or later and a USB-C cable that supports data and charging, such as the Apple USB-C Charge Cable (Apple explicitly warns against trying to use a Thunderbolt 3 cable). Although Macs running Sonoma can update firmware using the Finder, Apple Configurator is necessary for Macs running Monterey or Ventura, and LALicata’s Apple rep said that this particular problem could be resolved only by restoring from Apple Configurator, not the Finder. (Reviving leaves your data in place and is worth trying first; restoring erases the Mac and reverts it to factory defaults.)

Before LALicata fixed the problem, when the MacBook Pro was still running macOS 13.6.4, its System Firmware Version was 10151.41.12. After using Apple Configurator and upgrading to macOS 14.5, the System Firmware Version jumped 10151.121.1, which is the latest version for all Apple silicon Macs . To check your Mac’s System Firmware Version, Option-click the Apple menu and choose System Information—you’ll see it in the Hardware Overview screen.

This scenario suggests another general avenue of Mac troubleshooting. If you’re having problems associated with startup or updating, compare your Mac’s current firmware version with the latest version. Howard Oakley’s excellent Silent Knight utility, which reports on the update status of various system settings, makes that easier.

The Answer Is Documentation

It’s easy to rail about the technical side of this problem. However, Apple certainly doesn’t want or expect this firmware corruption to happen and is undoubtedly working to prevent it from happening and work around it automatically if it does. But no one is perfect, and it’s impossible to predict every possible occurrence that could corrupt firmware during an update.

Instead, I’d argue that the problem here revolves around documentation. First, the error message is terrible. What does “Failed to personalize” mean (nothing, in at least this context, and not much in any I can imagine), and how is it related to firmware (it’s not)? I suspect that the firmware problem is sufficiently rare and unexpected that it’s triggering an unrelated message. Still, a better-worded error message would go a long way toward helping users (and support reps) figure out what’s going wrong.

The error condition might be rare, but it’s not unheard of, so the second problem is that Apple’s article about reviving and restoring Mac firmware doesn’t include the error message text as one of the symptoms of corrupted firmware. If it had, LALicata and other users could have found the solution with a quick search.

That’s partly why I’m writing this article—to seed Internet search engines with the “Failed to personalize” string and the solution. Anyone running into such a problem in the future should be able to find this article and jump to Apple’s instructions on reviving or restoring firmware. They may be somewhat involved and non-trivial to follow (it matters which USB-C port you use, for instance), but they’ll take far less time than working with remote support reps.

Ideally, no one will run into this problem again, but if someone does, I hope they find their way to the solution here.

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This is a welcome solution! I have had people write me about this over the years, and never had diagnosed what could have caused it—much less a solution!

Thanks so much, Adam. One of the many reasons I check the posts on this website!

I’ve an M1 Studio that has had the problem since shortly after I purchased it, now through three versions of the Mac OS. I am able to get around it by booting into recovery mode and then reinstalling the latest OS. I’ve tried many other solutions, including erasing and rebuilding, and twice using Configurator and a second Mac to perform a restore. Disappointingly, my interactions with Apple support 2 years ago were similar - they focused on issues interfering with the download of the update or network issues (despite the fact that I told them we have 2 other Macs in the household on the same network and neither has ever had this issue). Left it at the Genius Bar, they wiped the machine and installed Ventura, claimed they could then update to Sonoma without a problem. I reinstalled apps and data via a Time Machine backup and held my breath until the next Sonoma update appeared, and again got the “Failed to personalize” message, as I have for every update since. I guess this suggests the issue may be with some software I have on the computer, but Apple was unable to solve the problem in my case.

Thank you for this article on the “personalize” problem. I had to deal with it on my iMac. I couldn’t find guidance using that term, but I eventually resolved it through the Recovery route. Jim Wheelis

Running Monterrey (12.7.5) on an 2019 Retina 5K iMac and Ventura on M1 MBPro Ultra and M2 Air.

App Store says MacOS 14 required for Configurator. Haven’t tried downloading with the laptops running Ventura yet.

Any way to get around this?

Maybe one solution is to install MacOS Sonoma on an USB stick or external drive. Then boot from that drive to get Configurator and try to update the firmware. Another solution may be (have not tested it) is to use Configurator from your Macbook Air conected to the iMac with an Apple USB charge cable.

Many thanks for this article! I have been struggling with this issue for months on a MacMini 2018, i.e. still with an Intel processor. The only way to update system software (now Sonoma) was in recovery mode. I am looking forward to use this solution.

This was an interesting article; thank you. I checked, and my MacBook Air M1 (2020) running macOS Big Sur 11.7.10 has firmware version 10151.1.1 rather than 10151.121.1. Since I have lost most of the technical expertise that I had years ago, I would like to ignore the discrepancy and do nothing. FWIW, I installed 11.7.10 last September and have experienced no (new) problems since then.

There are three recurring issues with the MBA, and I wonder if the firmware could be causing or contributing to any of them.

First, Time Machine will not complete a backup, either to a Time Capsule or an external (spinning) disk. It used to, but stopped working two or three macOS updates ago. It does seem to back up everything from ~, and I suspect that the issue is permissions on some file that is near the end of a backup session.

Second, keystrokes are sometimes doubled. In other words, I’ll type a character and it will appear twice. Again, this has been going on for a long time. It is rare but annoyingly frequent, and it happens on both the external and internal keyboard.

Third, the external display will sometimes go blank for about two to six seconds. This has happened 22 times so far this calendar year (and like the other issues, has been occurring for years), sometimes twice in one day and one time it didn’t happen for 35 days. I cannot detect any common trigger.

So, what is the downside to doing nothing (and staying at firmware 10151.1.1, at least until I get around to upgrading macOS to something more modern)? Is it likely that any of the three issues is caused or aggravated by the out-of-date firmware? Thanks for any guidance.

And @lalicata deserves the lion’s share of credit for tracking it down and reporting the experience here!

There’s no way to tell, but a combination of a very old version of macOS and old firmware could explain it. Unless you have an important reason to stick with Big Sur, like an app that won’t run on a later version, I can’t see any reason not to upgrade to Sonoma.

Jon Lindemann

3 June 2024: Jon, I did NOT want to go to 14.5 but the Apple Engineers were quite sure that there was absolutely no way to fix my problem unless I went to 14.5. One did let it slip that in the future, do not discard the Configurator app that works with that system software. It was never said but I got the feeling that each major software jump gets its own configurator. Lee

Hi. This is Lee. I tried this with an Apple Engineer on Monday when I did not have the right cable on hand, Did not work. No amount of petting, stroking, talking nice, yelling, screaming, cursing, pleading, weeping, or begging could get the Configurator2 app to recognize the system software on the USB stick AND make active the “restore” command. I think, but am not sure at all that the firmware that is being updated on the faulty Mac must be read from a well behaving Mac. I am SWAGGING this.

Well, I don’t know. I’m using Excel version 16.16.27, and it’s a bit flaky (editing conditional formatting almost always causes a crash), but it’s a lot more important to me than trying to fix any of the three annoyances I mentioned, especially if the fix only “might” take care of the problem. Does anyone know if my 2018 (copyright date from About Excel) version of Excel would work with Sonoma? Ventura?

My plan is to get a new MBA and install an up-to-date version of Office and try to make sure that everything works, then upgrade macOS on the old MBA and install an up-to-date version of Office, and then retire my MacBook Air from early 2015.

Granted, it’s not getting any updates anymore, but I couldn’t care less. In fact, I prefer the peace and quiet that comes with not getting constant MS updater nags. I’m never going to allow Excel to dao anythign that could endanger my system anyway.

I had this with my M1 and a Dell 4K display I was using external retina display. I believe the 60Hz 4K USB-C to HDMI dongle I was using wasn’t quite up to the task, as I’d read other reports of the issue on the Amazon listing for that adapter. It felt to me like a bad clock or refresh sync, but I too can’t explain the sporadic nature of it happening.

Anyway, I stopped using that display as it wasn’t really mine. My wife uses it with her late-2013 Intel MBP and has no issues. These days I use a non-retina display, for my sins.

Random intermittent display blanking, especially when using digital interfaces like DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort, usually means that you’ve got a weak or marginal signal. When the display loses signal, it goes black.

As @gingerbeardman pointed out, this can be due to problem cables or adapters. Higher resolutions require more bandwidth and cables designed for a lower-resolution may not be able to handle higher resolutions.

For example, there are four different types of HDMI cable (c.f. Wikipedia: HDMI: Cables and HDMI: Refresh frequency limits for standard video ):

• Approximately 5 Gbit/s (4 Gbit/s of usable data)
• Good for all HDMI 1.0 through 1.2 features
• 1080p at 60 Hz. 1440p at 30 Hz. Not suitable for HDR content.
• Approximatgely 10 Gbit/s (8 Gbit/s of usable data)
• Good for HDMI 1.0 through 1.4 features
• 1080p at 144 Hz, 1440p at 75 Hz, 4K at 30 Hz. Lower maximum refresh rates for HDR content.
• Approximately 18 Gbit/s (14 Gbit/s usable)
• Good for HDMI 2.0 features
• 1440p at 144 Hz, 4K at 60 Hz, 5K at 30 Hz. Lower maximum refresh rates for HDR content.
• Approximately 48 Gbit/s (42 Gbit/s usable)
• Good for HDMI 2.1 features
• 1440p at 240 Hz, 4K at 144 Hz, 5K at 60 Hz, 8K at 30 Hz, 10K at 30 Hz.

Similarly, DisplayPort cables are certified for certain transmission modes (c.f. Wikipedia: DisplayPort: Cable bandwidth and certifications and DisplayPort: Refresh frequency limits for standard video /):

• Supports up to HBR2 signaling (21.6 Gbit/s)
• 1080p at 240 Hz, 1440p at 165 Hz, 4K at 75 Hz, 5K at 30 Hz. Lower maximum refresh rates for HDR content.
• HBR3 (32.4 Gbit/s)
• 1440p at 240 Hz, 4K at 120 Hz, 5K at 60 Hz, 8K at 30 Hz. Lower maximum refresh rates for HDR content.
• UHBR10 (40 Gbit/s)
• 4K at 144 Hz, 5K at 60 Hz, 8K at 30 Hz. Lower maximum refresh rates for HDR content.
• UHBR13.5 (54 Gbit/s)
• 4K at 144 Hz, 5K at 120 Hz, 8K at 60 Hz. Lower maximum refresh rates for HDR content.
• UHBR20 (80 Gbit/s)
• 4K at 240 Hz, 5K at 180 Hz, 8K at 85 Hz. Lower maximum refresh rates for HDR content.

Cables certified for one category may work for with frequencies beyond the certified maximum, especially at shorter lengths, but it’s not guaranteed. And the further you go beyond the certified maximum, the less likely it will work. A cable that doesn’t meet the needs of your data, but comes close may work/fail intermittently or produce artifacts in the image.

Thanks, @Simon . Do you use conditional formatting in Excel? As I noted, editing (and sometimes just reviewing without changing) a conditional format rule usually causes an expected program termination.

And thank you to @gingerbeardman and @Shamino for the discussion of cables. That makes more sense than anything I thought of.

I’m using an Acer display that About This Mac tells me is 2560 x 1440, which I understand is definitely sub-Retina. The Displays pane in System Preferences shows 60 Hz (and is unchangeable).

I am using an HDMI cable; I believe it came with the display, but I’m not sure. I also have what was billed as a higher quality HDMI cable, but it’s much longer, so it might not fix the problem. [Edit to add: “8K UHD” is on the connectors, and I believe it’s 12 feet long, compared to about 18 inches for the one in use.] When I first got the display, I connected the Mac using a USB-C cable. I do not recall if I had screen blackouts then. (I have been using the HDMI cable, and an Anker USB hub with ethernet and HDMI ports, for some years now.) When I get a moment (probably the next time the screen blacks out), I’ll switch to a Thunderbolt cable.

Thanks for all the responses on this off-topic sub-thread.

The cables bundled with displays should work for that display, but they may not be certified for anything in partiular.

An “8K UHD” marking on a cable is just marketing and may not mean anything beyond the cable manufacturer’s wishful thinking. A certified (meaning it passed official tests) HDMI cable will have one of the four buzzwords: Standard, High Speed, Premium High Speed, or Ultra High Speed. And the cables certified in the latter two categories will include a certification label that includes several anti-counterfeiting features (like per-cable serial numbers and QR codes).

See also HDMI Cable Overview , which has links to two articles describing how to spot genuine certification labeling.

Mind you, an uncertified cable may work just fine, and there are plenty of good manufacturers that don’t bother with it. But without it, you’re relying on the integrity of the manufacturer.

Another useful/interesting resource is a Linus Tech Tips article from 2021: I Spent a THOUSAND Dollars on HDMI Cables… for Science .

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For instance, when combining roles, housekeeping management could be combined with front-desk management to form a single set of duties. Hotels could also introduce a player-coach model where one role involves supervising and performing work, such as a housekeeping supervisor who manages a team and cleans rooms.

Staff can also cover multiple roles as needed. Night-shift roles could be transformed by combining low-touch housekeeping duties with front-desk coverage during quieter times.

Redesigned roles could potentially improve employee satisfaction by empowering staff to explore new career paths within the hotel’s operations. Combined roles build skills across disciplines—for example, supporting a housekeeper to train and become proficient in some maintenance areas, or a front-desk associate to build managerial skills.

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Innovation 3: creating job networks across properties.

Where management or ownership is shared across properties, roles may be staffed to cover a network of sites, rather than individual hotels—especially where a hotel group may already have centralized administration for functions such as legal, accounting, and human resources.

This approach could be effective for various roles including office support, frontline staff, specialized positions, and management. In specialized roles such as maintenance, security, or events planning, a single person covering multiple properties can create value as needed. Activities staff, for instance for kids’ clubs, could also be shared. Frontline roles could be networked across properties, without sacrificing customer service. For example, a concierge or front-desk employee could alternate shifts between two nearby locations, or two different types of properties with different needs. A resort may need check-out staff later in the day whereas a hotel that caters to business travelers would need more staff in the mornings. Managers could be pooled to lead two smaller teams at two properties, instead of being focused on one.

Combining innovations to elevate operations

Though each intervention could alleviate some of the post-pandemic staff shortage issues, a combination of all three innovations could bring about a considerable reduction in weekly staff hours for a hotel property.

To illustrate, at one resort, weekly hours could be reduced by up to 18 percent by applying these three staffing innovations, specifically to front-desk and housekeeping roles. In this instance, using hourly demand to plan for staff coverage could have the greatest impact (Exhibit 2).

In many cases, employee engagement and retention have increased at hotels where all three measures have been adopted. For example, a property group under shared ownership adopted all three measures during the past two years which led to new ways for employees to grow and develop. A housekeeper who never imagined himself in a managerial role is now a shift supervisor, and employees who learned English while in back-of-house roles have embarked on training to pick up new front-of-house shifts.

These successes bode well for understaffed hotels, as McKinsey’s 2020 Employee Experience survey shows that employees who report having a positive experience at work are 16 times more engaged, and are eight times more likely to remain with their employer, than employees who report a negative experience.

Accordingly, hotel owners could make efforts to engage employees when it comes to staffing innovation by exploring, testing, and experimenting to find what works best for their employees as well as for their business needs and operating environment.

While these three innovations, alone or in combination, can lead to operational improvements, they may be easier to implement at some types of hotels than others. For instance, resorts may find it easier to provide employees with new career paths, cross-train staff, or combine similar roles. Hotel-chain operators may find it easier to share roles across locations. Many smaller, limited-service hotels have already implemented job sharing, so this particular innovation may not offer much value. Hotel owners may need to assess what would likely work best for them and their particular business model and context.

As hotel occupancy continues to recover post-pandemic, hotels have the opportunity to think innovatively about staffing. By adopting a more flexible staffing model based on dynamic demand, hotels can deliver pre-pandemic levels of service even if they are short staffed. Of course, the key to implementing any staffing innovation successfully is to keep an eye on employee engagement, and ensure that any change is good for people, and the business.

Ryan Mann is a partner in McKinsey’s Chicago office, Esteban Ramirez is a manager of client capabilities in the Dallas office, and Matthew Straus is an associate partner in the Carolinas office.

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