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Numbers in newark, new jersey, about 12% of high schoolers are adequate in math. in camden, among kids in grades 3 through 8, it's 7% have reached the math standard. why wouldn't the incoming governor make that his priority and not legal aid to illegal aliens? >> i think you are unfair in the premise of what you said. first and foremost as it relates to new jersey, there is 500,000 undocumenteds in our state, that's 6% of our population. so they're not the criminals that you purport them to be. they are our neighbors. >> tucker: i'm not calling them criminals. what i'm calling them is non-amer...

Numbers in newark, new jersey about 12% of high schoolers are adequate in math. in camden, among kids in grades 3 through 8 it's 7% have reached the math standard. why wouldn't the incoming governor make that his priority and not legal aid to illegal aliens. >> i think you are unfair in the premise you said. first and foremost as it relates to new jersey there is 500,000 undocuments in our state that's 6% of our population. so they're not the criminals that you purport them to be. they are our neighbors. >> tucker: i'm not calling them criminals. what i'm calling them is non-americans which th...

It happened last week. military officials are reviewing the incident. take this one to the bank. an ohio dad fed up with common core wrote a check to his kid's school using the long form math standard. the mock check struck a nerve with fed-up parents across the country and has gone viral by 20,000 fold. but the story comes with a funny twist of its own. that father, doug herman joins us. >> i'd ask you for the equation about our time on the screen right now, but i'm afraid of what you'll say. >> i can't figure it out. >> tell us what inspired you to write the check to your son's school. >> ...

>> it is. called common core math. governs across country want to nationalize math standard. learn math than memorize a bunch of tables. big changes here including teaching multiplication in fourth grade rather than third and al ge gra in the ninth instead of 70 and eighth. the goal to keep kids on the same page. if the child moves cross-country, there is no guarantee there is going to be continuity with what they have been doing. they may find they have missed big pieces and asked to repeat other things. >> and proponents say this is the way of teaching math from a bigger picture perspective ...