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Engineering. it is really when you boil it down it's just a -- a curriculum of asking questions, observing, making a hypothesis, testing it out. >> reporter: the show's producer responding to an urgent need. among 65 industrialized nations, 15-year-olds in the u.s. place 23rd in science and 30th in math behind countries like finland, the slovak republic and estonia. can the muppets pave the way to m.i.t.? well, for 30 years, researchers have studied something called the sesame effect. they found exposure to the program as a preschooler equals higher achievement in high school. frequent viewers...
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