it comes easy to me. so something that she struggles with, that s easy for me, if i can help her with it, it s not going to hurt me to sit down for ten minutes and write out the multiplication tables. all i have here is time. why not use it for something constructive? 30, 40, 50 yes, okay. melissa sees learning math as a step toward getting her life back on track after years of drug addiction and prostitution. monday through sunday, nonstop, every day. there s not a day that passed, every day. i did crazy i looked like a damned fool. i could see myself out there. i looked like a damned fool, running around thinking i m like [ bleep ]. probably smelled like one, i don t know. 37 years old. i can t do this no more. i don t want my brothers to be here. we better than that.
so something that she struggles with, that s easy for me, if i can help her with it, it s not going to hurt me to sit down for ten minutes and write out the multiplication tables. all i have here is time. why not use it for something constructive? 30, 40, 50 yes, okay. melissa sees learning math as a step toward getting her life back on track after years of drug addiction and prostitution. monday through sunday, nonstop, every day. there s not a day that passed, every day. i did crazy i looked like a damned fool. i could see myself out there. i looked like a damned fool, running around thinking i m like [ bleep ]. probably smelled like one, i don t know. 37 years old. i can t do this no more. i don t want my brothers to be here. we better than that. we re the allens. we re better than that, you
your baby. that s pretty direct. now, he has this way of being whoever he is with he talks to them as if they re the only ones listening. sometimes he will attempt to use the bully pulpit and talk to somebody else, it s not his style. it s about an encounter of culture. i m with you. i m talking to you. and so i hope he is direct. we ll see. well, what a special set of days, again, father jonathan morris, it has to feel extraordinary for you and we thank you for your time today. thank you, elisabeth. we got it. now coming up, a world record for world record holder for crunching numbers says kids are learning math all the wrong way. what? the human calculator joining us live with the secret that can make anyone a math whiz. next. i can t wait. but first, 1984, let s go crazy by prince was the number one song in america.
programming, computer languages, web development, part of an effort to make the ultra orthodox the next wave of high-tech workers. people that didn t know anything about the computer a year ago you will see them developing web and mobile applications. reporter: the students begin by learning math and english, things they never learned in their strict traditional lfestyle that focuses only on religious study. and then they learn to program. after one year of study they work in high-tech. they are really curious. just want to know towns what happen is going on and they are not satisfied with shallow answers. the religious high-tech school called ravtech is a way to find work unemployment and poverty are major problems in the community. more than half of the men don t work. most families only the woman works, often at a low-income job
math is one of my better skills. it comes easy to me. so something that she struggles with, that s easy for me, if i can help her with it, it s not going to hurt me to sit down for ten minutes and write out the multiplication tables. all i have here is time. why not use it for something constructive? 30, 40, 50 yes, okay. melissa sees learning math as a step toward getting her life back on track after years of drug addiction and prostitution. monday through sunday, nonstop, every day. there s not a day that passed, every day. i did crazy i looked like a damned fool. i could see myself out there. i looked like a damned fool, running around thinking i m like [ bleep ]. probably smelled like one, i don t know. 37 years old. i can t do this no more. i don t want my brothers to be here.