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Of the paragraphs that proceed it. >> just like dad, making sure he doesnt curse in front of the kids. >> i knew jon stewart figuratively. im not going say this. is this a joke? >> its not a joke, sir. >> dads are great at involving math problems, tieing shoes and playing catch and opening jars of peanut butter and hating gregs book. i cant blame them. thanks, dad. >> as usual weve learned nothing from your report. everyone here but me is father. who has the most kids? how many kids, mike? >> fo...

Disclose, do we have depression, so on. and then in the middle of that we were doing stress type tests where one of the examples i can give you is that we listen to an airline traffic control tape talking with pilots during a thunderstorm event and then do geometry and math problems. and try -- the questions were asked later can we relay what happened with these particular questions. in other words, what did air traffic control say to such and such. do we have the ability to multitask which woul...

There are still three more weeks left in the challenge and someone you might know has a request to make. >> dear nerd land, its me, parker. im mhps daughter. im writing to you because i need your help. ever since my little sister was born, my moms been on maternity leave. that means she has lots of extra time to help me with my homework. she uses vocabulary words to ask me what i want for dinner. she makes up math problems at the grocery store. and since its march she quizzes me on womens histor...

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In british columbia. and last year somebody bought a $100,000 car using only bit coins. is it the money of the future? but not everyone is soiled. some cant even get their heads around the concept, including alan greenspan. >> you have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of bit coin is. i havent been able to do it. maybe somebody else can. >> reporter: for those who can stretch their imagination, here are the they ways to get your hands on bit coins. can you buy ...

It is not pages of math problems. its all story problems. and the way its introduced instructional-wise i thought to the class, the teacher goes over a couple of vocabulary words and so its more of a wordy math rather than formula math. and into shell go over the definitions of vocabulary words the students copy this down with a picture on the bottom, maybe two similar triangles to look at scale, and then theyre sent to do their work. >> so then a curriculum problem as much as anything, and the ...

Were developed and she came home with a d. what happened that was so dramatically different. >> my school district implemented cpm, and they saw common core and reviewed several different curriculums and voted on that as being the best one to meet common core requirements. cpm requires a group learning atmosphere, direct ininstruction is not encouraged at all. its discouraged in favor of group learning, and actually like the students to kind of struggle for a couple weeks until they get to the p...

In math, new standards came out and she got a d. so what happened that was so different? >> so my school district implemented bpm. they volted on common core curriculums. it requires a group learning atmosphere. direct instruction is not encouraged at all. its discouraged. and they like the students to kind of struggle for a couple weeks until they get the formula and figure it out themselves or they eventually get it. i love math, i have a background in engineering. old schools it would have ex...

Is not pages of math problems, it is all story problems. the way its introduced, the teacher gets up and goes over a couple problems. its more word math than formula math. she will go over the definition of a vo cab lar word, they will copy it down, and they will look at it, and then they do their problems. >> so its more of a curriculum problem. i think we have a shot of one of the pages from your daughters book. some of it is -- well, its very difficult to understand. i dont want to put words ...

It is not pages of math problems. its all story problems. and the way its introduced instructional-wise i thought to the class, the teacher goes over a couple of vocabulary words and so its more of a wordy math rather than formula math. and into shell go over the definitions of vocabulary words the students copy this down with a picture on the bottom, maybe two similar triangles to look at scale, and then theyre sent to do their work. >> so then a curriculum problem as much as anything, and the ...