yeah my understand algebra and i have renewed that. i am a writer come here is my riding.you have a portfolio of your creative work in multi dimensions and you have reviews from people that you felt that a great person to work with tom understood the subject matter, was able to communicate well and there's nothing anyone would care about more than just test scores. >> host: let's talk about what happens in the classroom or the school in terms of subject so you believe that right now you have to take mass, you have to teach english language arts, you start at a certain point in time. do you believe they should also be taught in the school, and at what point? another question i want to ask is do you believe all children can learn unless the of a serious disability can they all progress to the level that you have progressed if they simply learn and master and show an interest in the subject matter that they are studying and the science technology engineering which are areas that tend not to get interested in is it just because they haven't mastered well or are there limitatio

i understand algebra and i've renewed it that i know algebra well and i'm a writer. here is my writing. if you have a portfolio of your creative work is multidimensional and you have reviews from refused from people that you have helped. a great person to work with, really understood the subject matter and really was able to commit a hate well and those are things anyone would care more about than just a test scores. >> host: let's talk a little bit about what happens in the classroom or the school in terms of subject. you believe right now you have to take math and you have to take english and language arts and you start science at a certain point in time. do you believe that these basic should be taught in the school and at what point? another question i wanted to ask is do you believe all children can learn unless they have a serious disability? can they'll progress at the level that you have progressed if they simply learn and master and show an interest really in the subject matter that they are studying? specifically in the stem field, the science, technology e

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so the problem wasn't that some cognitive inability to understand algebra.the problems they are sitting in algebra class and for some reason they didn't understand how to multiply or add fraction. you are just feel silly in algebra class and you'll disengage really just to protect your own self-esteem. so i'm actually now more and more convinced that pretty much everyone, you know, barring certain exception, we don't know where congresswoman, we don't know but progress far it. we're seeing in these classrooms, we traditionally think motivated kids are maybe 20% kids but essential allow kids to engage in felony counts without being embarrassed easiest 80 or 90% kids start to feel engaged. in terms of the first question about what subject, i think it is an interesting. i talk a little bit about it. the subjects that are taught that are somewhat arbitrary. they were decided in 1892 by a committee of the meaning university who did not know about, this was before the federal reserve existed, the interstate highway access, a knowledge of dna decided, income at age

my basics were really, really solid, and my basics in algebra were good. when i went into corporate finance, this is intiewtive. there's nothing new here. you see other really, really smart people just learning for the next exam, memorizing formulas, and forget it. there's a related con -- concept, and they are like, what's this? draws connections between things so that when you see a concept, it's not new, but it's connected to everything they learned before, and i get a lot of letters saying i would assume that would have been appealing to the motivated kids so to speak, but i get letters from kids were traditionally disengaged or demotivated, and no one just explained the why or giving them the connections. hopefully that's why people are -- have been, i guess, connecting to the content. >> host: yeah. so let's talk about virtual education and offering the types of things you're offering. people are still a little weiry of these reforms. they see it as a mechanism to ultimately get rid of teachers in the classroom or reduce class sizes. you talked about

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number of possible combinations is given by -- >> reporter: like most journalists, i barely passed algebra. we all agreed i should get some individual attention. professor norris's formula is painfully complicated. >> there are 15 possible ball and five are drawn and the number of combinations is given by this form l.a. >> reporter: the solution is downright painful. >> to get the total probability we simply multiply these numbers together and get a total probability of about 175 million. >> reporter: professor, with so many people playing this time around, does that hurt my odds? >> your odds are the same no matter how many people play. you just have a higher chance of having to split the jackpot. >> reporter: is it better to choose my own number or let the computer pick them. >>? every number has exactly the same likelihood of winning so it doesn't matter. >> reporter: you might wonder, how did the jackpot get this big? because there have been so many losers. no winners in an unbelievable 16 drawings in a row. this time, so many people are buying tickets, powerball big wigs just raised t

. >> and did division used to make you cringe, was algebra a pain in the neck is research shows thatmay be more painful than you think. >> speaking of math, offshore winds likely to crank temperatures up to record- breaking levels today. but there's also some rain in the forecast. we'll talk about that coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, this morning.. the company s it sold a record num >>> welcome back. apple had some good news to report this morning. the company says it's sold a record number of ipad minis over the weekend. more than 3 million minis were snatched up by apple fans during its debut weekend. the mini, which starts at $329, hit store shelves friday after preorders sold out on apple's website. >>> a bit of relief at the pump for drivers over the past two weeks. the lundberg survey says gas prices dropped 21 cents since mid-october. the national average for a gallon of regular is now $3.55. in california, the average much higher at $3.98. and, of course, san francisco is still holding the distinction for the nation's highest gas price at $4.05. ouch. >>> in today's healthwatch,

it's a basic algebraic equation: you cannot achieve unconventional results without employing unconventionalsdom. > > tom friedman of the times, also lawrence katz, labor economist at harvard, have said, yes, you need agile, nimble, quick-thinking, quick- to-change companies, but also a work force. > > that is exactly right. and the only way that happens is when the leader of the organization understands that they have four members of their constituency, four stake- holders, and those are the workers, those are the customers, those are the vendors and suppliers, and those are the shareholders. unfortunately, most companies act only in the interest of the shareholders. layoffs, plant closings, slashing product offerings. great companies, enlightened leaders who create adaptable, nimble, fast, re- inventive companies, are companies that say "we have to serve all four members of the constituency equally," and that's how you get the work force on your team. > > jason jennings, terrific. thank you so much. > > take care. thanks. thanks as always bill. up next, ways traders are positioning for pot

six out of ten feel unsafe at school for their sexual orientation this discrimination has to end algebra two students and more from their educational institutions they deserve not to be brought down by a school that's supposed to be building them up and that's why i'm breaking the set . on the last couple of shows i've been highlighting a lot of things i disagree with about israeli policy against palestine but you have to remember that it's not only me or millions of other people around the world it's israeli citizens as well every single military age citizen in israel are forced to serve in the israeli defense forces or i.d.f. and many of them like me are anti imperialists they do not agree with.

six out of ten feel unsafe at school for their sexual orientation this discrimination has to end algebra two students deserve more. from their educational institutions they deserve not to be brought down by a school that's supposed to be building them up and that's why i'm breaking the set . i. on the last couple of shows i've been highlighting a lot of things i disagree with about israeli policy against palestine but you have to remember that it's not only me or millions of other people around the world it's israeli citizens as well every single military age citizen in israel are forced to serve in the israeli defense forces or i.d.f. and many of them like me are anti imperialists they do not agree with the occupation of gaza and the west bank in fact today i'm highlighting just one of these conscientious objectors his name is no tongue belong where we can find a photo of him but it doesn't track from his good deed is one thousand year old from horrific horror sorry israel recently showed up in his recruitment bureau to inform officers that he's refusing to serve in the i.d.f. why while

republicans on board with movements like national popular vote which would scrap the electoral college algebra democratic state so for the right. once again tonight folks. still awaiting the results from the very close closely contested states of virginia and florida but it seems to us in this election year two thousand and twelve that we don't need those states to be able to project that barack obama will remain in the white house for another four years did he was able to win the state of ohio ohio of course a huge manufacturing state the auto bailout and perhaps that is what all did it but we want to thank you all for joining us tonight thank you christine so it's been it's been an exciting night it's been a fun night we hope that we've provided a little bit different coverage for you signing off for now hope you have a great night. too much brighter. from the sun still. we. don't. want to use today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada as. charlie corporations are on the day . please speak your language. programs and docu

oh, he took algebra in high school and flunked. hey, don't knock it. some people pass, some people flunk. i mean he's just one of the ones that flunked, okay? don't make a deal of it. and some people get a high school diploma and some people don't, right? some can hack it, some can't. right? well, einstein couldn't hack it. that's all right. you know, you can still make it. no high school diploma, gang. and he's out there and it turned out that he met a young lady who influenced him to go back to school. so he tried going back to school. took the entrance exams and flunked. and he flunked the exam. hey, i mean he cannot-- not everybody passes everything, huh? and then he studied hard and he took the entrance exams again and passed. turned out he had trouble with the french language. you know, in europe they speak all these languages. he couldn't do the french so well. anyway, albert einstein went through school and he did go all the way and got his ph.d. got his ph.d. in physics. and about this time, he had a hard time getting a job. his thinking was a

what would you pay solving for x in an algebra equation, what would you pay for the roughly $3 that the company could earn? to me it might be 25 times earnings. you're not going to get a quality company like this on the cheap. not one with this reputation, management and balance sheet. i think anywhere close to 25 times earnings, this is how you use a sell-off. when whole foods gets to 75, maybe buy some and then maybe it drops down to 22 times earnings. that would be 66 dollars. the point is that we're trying to figure out if the market keeps going down, where would you pull the trigger? sure if the growth rate slows you will lose a lot of money. that's the correct prism for higher growth investment. you can do this with a whole host of vast growing companies, i'm only picking on whole foods because the quarter was everything you could ever want except that the stock is so expensive that nothing could ever be enough. whole foods is a buy right now or wait for a better price. stick with cramer. [ applause ] >>> catch me on "meet the press" on sunday. check your local listings. this new

that is breaking it down thanks to algebra skills not far lost. 43 percent for registered democrats, percent for registered republicans. these early voting lines saturday night and friday night people were waiting if line 3 hours four-hours, five hours even six-hours. early voting is the way it is going to work for tomorrow big election day. if you are in line by 7:00 with the polls closed you will be able to kags your ballot no matter if that means it is 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 when you funlly walk out the door. back to you. >>> phil keating live in tampa. thank you. >>> now a look at some of the other news making headlines for you this morning. over 30 major u.s. newspapers endorsing mitt romney after backing president obama four years ago. we told you about new york's daily news endorsement yesterday. also on the list des moines register. fort lauderdale sun-sentinel houston chronicle illinois daily harold. long island news day. loss apg less daily news, press telegram national tennessee and the orlando sentinel. >> polling places have been moved officials preparing for election day in

i want our students to complete algebra one by eighth grade and take four years of rigorous mathematics in high school. i want our students to write well, understand their history, engage in science, appreciate the arts and so much more. >> reporter: dr. star says the school system will be looking for nutritional materials to go along. he also says they will continue to partner with businesses in the area to give students real world experiences. in montgomery county, megan mcgrath, news 4. >>> new this morning, a man is in the hospital after being pulled from the canal. firefighters pulled the victim from the water around 11:00 last night. it's not clear how he fell into the canal. he was listed in critical condition. >>> police are trying to figure out who shot and killed a 20-year-old man in prince georges county. police found the man suffering from a gunshot wound in the 7300 block of 23rd avenue in louisdale yesterday morning. police say they're working on a motive in this case. >>> police are trying to figure out what led to a shooting at a fast food restaurant in howard county. in

oh, he took algebra in high school and flunked. hey, don't knock it. some people pass, some people flunk. i mean he's just one of the ones that flunked, okay? don't make a deal of it. and some people get a high school diploma and some people don't, right? some can hack it, some can't. right? well, einstein couldn't hack it. that's all right. you know, you can still make it. no high school diploma, gang. and he's out there and it turned out that he met a young lady who influenced him to go back to school. so he tried going back to school. took the entrance exams and flunked. and he flunked the exam. hey, i mean he cannot-- not everybody passes everything, huh? and then he studied hard and he took the entrance exams again and passed. turned out he had trouble with the french language. you know, in europe they speak all these languages. he couldn't do the french so well. anyway, albert einstein went through school and he did go all the way and got his ph.d. got his ph.d. in physics. and about this time, he had a hard time getting a job. his thinking was a

>> and it's a-- >> 96 in algebra and the kid is amazing. >> i can't look at the grades for the shirtlesst shirtless photos of him on national tv. >> it's from the summer, and he was playing soccer. >> do you have one of those bumper stickers, my kid made the honor roll. >> and next year in high school. >> and i have to special thanks, i'm the only commuter here on the show and i lived in maryland and up here during the the week and i want to say i'm thankful to my friends and co-hosts and include me this things ear' doing most of the time and i appreciate that and don't know many people up here and to the staff and producers, excuse me. and who are also include me in things and i appreciate them. >> very nice. >> you didn't thank, are you thankful for small bites on the trains. >> yeah, order them up. >> we're thankful for you, too, bob. >> and we always need a punching bag here. >> and the mood swings the last three years. >> three years, last three weeks. >> i noticed, it wasn't a mood swing, i noticed how calm you were, that's when i knew obama was winning. and-- >> yeah, yeah, that's

can you do algebra? white take away red equals what? three. [laughs] white take away red... cyan. gives cyan. shall i do that again? yeah. there's your white. now, i'm gonna take the red away from it. watch where my finger is. i'll take the red away. whoops. [laughter] and what's it turned into? cyan. cyan. did you ever wonder why the sea water is a cyan color? it's green and blue. how many people have never wondered that? "so, well, it's cyan--" no, no, no, no, there's a reason why it had to be a cyan. can we have the lights please, ted? sure. -- it turns out that seawater, any kind of water, absorbs, like mad, infrared. in fact, if you take an infrared light and shine it on water, it'll heat up very, very quickly. and it also absorbs a lot of red. so when the sunlight comes down, all the colors, yeah, hits the water. guess what color gets absorbed more than any other. red. no. no, not green. okay. let's try-- let me give you a hint then. begins with r, ends with d. red. yeah, red. good. okay. some people said green. it turns out the red gets absorbed. when the red gets absorbed,

. >> a body suit kind of look, makes it difficult to study algebra during the day every day.s distracting to a wide variety of boys and girls in will 62. let's wear something longer that covers up more of the body. >> he may not like it, but the school board has not taken up the issue. >> and at least it's starting a conversation. >> talk about what you should be wearing at school. >> exactly. get parents involved, too. >>> and brian bolter is standing by for what is next on the news edge at 6. >>> new on the news edge, a fox 5 investigation comes full circle. the tease fire and -- d.c. fire and e.m.s. investigation close to a shortage. answers on what this means for you. >>>ed founder of the popular antivirus software mcafee on the run after being wanted by police. what he's doing these days. and a major shakeup at d.c. schools. more on the massive closure of 20 schools and the top stories ahead at 6.  . >>> in california, police shot and killed a camp pendleton marine after the marine allegedly hit the officer with his car. investigators say that the mar

ethics and the policy arguments that are absolutely right it will awaken i think to the math and algebravolting for a republican party that's against immigration reform and without a latino base of some sort, they won't win national elections. i think the political argument may be the more per vase situationive one to them. but it will work at the end of the day. >> you're correct. the death nail is there for the republican party. and whether they refuse to recognize it, which is stupid politically or they accommodate the reality it is all up to them. but the death nail is there. >> eliot: what is happening in your own state of arizona? it ewinged to be considered -- >> we have a great opportunity to elect a latino member of the united states senate. dr. carmona. who, six months ago nobody would have predicted the race to be neck and neck the representative from arizona. he has the endorsement of kyl mccain, all of the money coming in from the super pacs yet we find ourselves with few days left of the election, neck and neck election. furnitureout of the latino -- turnout of the latino c

i want our students to complete algebra i by eighth grade and take four years of rigorous mathematics in high school. >> dr. starr wants community and business leaders to get 1r068d in the schools and provide the students with real-world experiences. >>> when we come right back on news4 at 5:00, meatless ndays. one city's push to cut out the fat one day at a time. >>> using a tablet computer may improve some people's vision ♪ ♪ no two people have the same financial goals. pnc works with you to understand yours and help plan for your retirement. visit a branch or call now for your personal retirement review. >>> another study about autism, this time it shows that the risk for autism may -- may be higher in children whose mothers had the flu or a fever for more than a week while they were pregnant. this is a danish study where researchers looked at files of nearly 97,000 children born between '97 and 2003. kids whose mothers had the flu or a fever for a week while they were pregnant had at least twice the risk of being diagnosed with autism before the age of 3. doctors say the best prot

then he got to france -- he did not know algebra, he did not know trigonometry. he did not know how to use the guns. all that had to be learned in school. he was a good student. he said it was the toughest thing he ever had to do, to go to those artillery schools. the one in france was napoleon's artillery school. a very elite group. he said he was surrounded by these guys from yale who looked down upon him as a high-school graduate. he showed them -- i am as good as they are, he said. >> when was he elected to the senate? >> 1934. >> how many terms? >> he was reelected in 1940, a second term, and was chosen vice president in 1944. >> why? >> well, it was sas simple one sentence reason. that is, he would lose the least amount of votes as second place on the tickets of all the candidates who wanted to be vice president. a host of others. they were at sixes and sevens. roosevelt was playing his usual game of toying with his aides -- i like this guy, and they were not getting anywhere. finally, ed flynn, the boss of new york, a powerful machine politician, went down

now, if we're trying to decide on a best strategy, we actually have to do a little algebra and figure out the probability of each solution turning up. now, here's where we see the magic of math. it turns out that if odd plays 1 7/12ths of the time, odd will actually accumulate more points over time, winning the game. this is an example of a "mixed strategy" because odd has to mix up what he does. in fact, if you do only one thing all the time, your odds of winning aren't going to increase. just the opposite in the long run, because your opponent's going to figure out pretty quickly what you're doing. this kind of payoff matrix does help us see that our instinct for not making the same choice all the time is also a mathematically sound one. odd-even is an example of what we call a zero-sum game: "i win, you lose." a player benefits only at the expense of others. if you add the payoff and benefit for each hand, they add up to 0. but most games are non-zero-sum: a gain by one player doesn't necessarily mean a loss by another player, as in blue and white's prisoner dilemma. let's take a l

. >> reporter: at the middle school in chapel hill north carolina, rees took us to the pre-algebra classroomrpener, wall mounted double bird hand cranked. >> we can just go and go and go and i can keep making jokes. >> reporter: he got in trouble for it. it's not as easy as you may remember. it's actually harder than i remember to hold that. >> you have to let the pencil know who is boss. >> reporter: if the wood isn't perfectly straight and the lead perfectly centered. this is very annoying when this happens. >> yeah, right. reporter: then the point may not be on point. >> there's a lot of wood on this side and then as we rotate the pencil, you see that on this side there's more graphite exposed. >> reporter: that's right. he said graphite. not lead. >> this is what happened. in around 1565 in england, shepherds discovered the world's first deposit of nationally occurring graphite. they started using it to mark their sheep. this was just raw chunks of graphite. initially they thought it was lead. and so as they came to bind this graphite in wood to make it more usable so it wouldn't crumble

we say, every child needs to take algebra in ninth grade. but what about that child who is ready for it in the seventh grade? what about that kid should be taking it in 10th grade? the problem with traditional public education as i saw it when i became a student of this in d.c. is that we do not meet children where they are. we try to force them into learning the same day, the same way, and the same things. at the end of the day, that is when i began to embrace change. what this change look like? nbc, i was very fortunate -- in d.c. i was very fortunate. we have one of the most prolific charter movements in the country. 42 percent of our public school kids are in charter schools. the test scores are higher than children in traditional d.c. schools. we have our first federally funded voucher program that allows kids from economically challenged communities to go to private schools. kids can go to national cathedral, all of these great private schools. now we have got nearly 2000 kids that have had this for the past seven years. it struck me a

we say that every child needs to take algebra in ninth grade, what about that child who is ready for it in seventh grade? what about the kid who should be taking it in 10th grade? the problem with traditional public education, as i saw it, is that we do not meet children where they are. we force them into learning the same way and the same things. that is when i began to embrace change. what this change look like? in d.c., i was very fortunate. i was one of the people on the committee and now we have one of the most prolific charter movements in the country. the test scores are 20 points higher than traditional d.c. public schools. then we have our voucher program that allows kids from low income communities and neighborhoods to go for it -- go to private schools. kids who go to the national cathedral, all these great private schools. we have got nearly 2000 kids going to the schools. it struck me after seeing the success of these programs that that jumps started some change in traditional d.c. public schools. now, all the innovations the school system wanted to do for many years, no

and when we say that every child needs to take algebra in the ninth grade, like your mama and her grandmamma, what about the kid who could take in the seventh grade, or the kid who should take in the 10th grade? the problem with public education as i saw it when i became a student of this stuff in d.c., is that we do not need children where they are. we are trying to force them into learning the same way and the same things. and that is what i began to embrace change. what does that look like? in d.c., i was very fortunate. i took over the charter movement and now we have the most prolific charter movement in the country. the 42% of public-school kids are in a charter schools. and their scores are higher than traditional schools. and then we have the voucher program that allows kids from low-income communities to go to private schools, schools like where the president sends his kids. all of these grade private schools and now we've got nearly 2000 kids over the past seven years going to the schools. and the success of these programs has just started change in traditional d.c. public schools.

and yet when we say that, no, every child needs to take algebra in ninth grade like your mama and your grandma ma, what about that child that's ready for it in seventh grade? or what about that kid that should be taking it in tenth grade? and the problem with traditional public education as i saw it when i became a student of this stuff in d.c. is that we don't meet children where they are. wewe try to force them into learning the same day, the same way and the same things. at the end of the day, that's when i began to embrace change. so what does change look like? well, in d.c. i was very fortunate, i was one of the leaders when i took over there as case committee in pushing our charter movement, and now we have one of of the most prolific charter movements in the country, 43% of our kids are in charter schools, and their test scores are 20% higher than the traditional d.c. public schools. and then we had our voucher program, the first federally-funded program that allowed kids from low income communities and neighborhoods to go to private schools, schools like sidwell friends where t