1. Calculating Change
The 60-minute program includes interviews with Ellen Ochoa, a Hispanic female
astronaut, and Vice President Al Gore, plus on-location reports on five innovative programs across America.
A youth services director in Lorain, OH, works with gang members and uses a pool
table to teach them basic math while helping them develop self-confidence.
A mother in Reston, VA, invents a colorful shapes-and-patterns game to teach geometry
and other advanced math concepts in an after-school program.
Bob Moses and David Dennis, former '60s voting rights activists, today focus on
teaching African American students math skills and confidence through the Algebra Project.
A New York City class learns fractions, ratio, proportion, and geometric principles while designing and building models of a housing project.
Elementary students on the Isleta Reservation in New Mexico test the water of the Rio Grande to learn about the interdependency of life forms on earth.