Page 1262 - Math News Today

Hes repeatedly broken the single-day record for prize money. his average winnings her day, $77,800. the previous "jeopardy" record for one day, $77,000 even. so if he continues at this rate -- i did the math for you because its early and i understand -- he could break the $2 million mark by the end of this week. if he keeps up that pace, he will challenge ken jennings all-time money record in about ten more victories. >> ken jennings wants him to win. he wrote a whole op-ed. he makes the case, t...

That shes not our president. a clear choice for kentucky in november. >> neil: i was noticing, governor, your state is no different than others, that has a significant pension crisis. the math doesnt favor it surviving at the rate its going. you took that on and took a lot of political heat for that. obvious obviously, you know, youre going after teachers, police, what have you, by taking away their pensions. how do you answer that? >> the good thing is, im running against a guy and i hate to sa...

A great question because today and yesterday moneys got to me give me any interview and if you want them just say that is not the constitution that caught any wanting to remind my team failure that they were kind of didnt call him decided actually that spendings you think it is that your president and this is really important in the new speech of what hes going to tell me because this is a signal for math to fail all right still clearly hes day elected president of the country but this speech of...

Lifetime of anyone living in kentucky a has fully funded these pensions. not only have i not taken anything, i have put billions into them. i have raised the issue. tim only governor in kentucky history to fully fund these pensions. >> neil: you have done that. you talk about changing the system the way it is now, which might be appropriate given the math youre dealing with. that is curtailing benefits or for those that just come on to the system, maybe they contribute more like a 401(k) or you ...

Socioeconomic spectrum and in this case the people who are hurt are people who have legitimately have learning disabilities. when there is a privilege opened up for certain people, it can be abused and in this case its being encouraged to be abused. there is no more objective standard in the system. steve: all right. michael knowles, thank you very much for joining us. congratulations on that sat. [laughter] >> i appreciate it. steve: what was your score by the way? ainsley: you cant ask that. >...

Start, tell them to tinker and take things apart and not to walk away when they get frustrated. if theyre bad at gymnastics, dont pull them out and put them into soccer, let them know what its like to not get an a-plus every single time. so many girls think theyre bad at math because it doesnt come easily to them. those are two different things. i think in the name of protection and coddling, we are often not giving our girls exposure to risk and failure, because we dont want to hurt their feeli...

One day says he has no desire for war. he wants to sit down. literally 24 hours later, trump goes in front of a big crowd saying that, if the iranians continue to provoke us hell wipe them off the map. thats not an invitation to dialogue. so, well, possibly the are math could get us back to the table. whi right now, i dont see that you said a military to military connection. what connection do we have to go through? the swiss? are there direct connections? >> there were direct connections during...

Either were suppressed from being able to cast ballots or stayed home, didnt vote. if people in philadelphia, milwaukee and detroit go and vote for democrats regardless of whether or not it is joe biden or anybody else, democrats will win that state. thats the math there. you know this better than anyone. i think joe bidens challenge in terms of the matchup between him and trump is to excite that exact base, its not necessarily to worry about being lowered, although thats a possibility to encour...

School more quickly. this is really a gift that liberates them to follow their passions. >> it really is liberating. president thomas, have you done the math yet? have you done the sort of back of the envelope calculation yet of how much this will cost the smith family? >> so, because we learned -- we literally learned of the gift less than 24 hours ago, as soon as i get off camera im going over to my business and finance office to actually see if we got the calculation yet. so folks have been w...

>> so my mom, she lost her husband in the war, so she was a widow. when she met my dad, all his former soldiers, hey, as an officer, he treated us really well. there were a lot of sticky situations they were in and somehow he got them out so thats why my mom was attracted to my dad because he cares a lot about his men. when the war as over, all sorts of men left behind kind of took their family, but my dad, he actually stayed and kind of made sure that all his guys got out with him, so whats int...