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- A series of educational videos about math in the real world.
- Life in space. Beam-ins. Intergalactic war. What about getting a driver's license or doing the laundry? This one-hour special features dozens of space professionals---from astronauts and life systems engineers to space suit designers, interior decorators and the "Lunar Lettuce Man." A moving story concerning Jaime Escalante and one of his students (Raymond Cruz) is interwoven with imaginative vignettes that explore the humor and drama of day-to-day life away from Earth. A documentary AND fantasy. Shot on video and on film. Guest stars include Kathy Bates, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Pat Morita, Esai Morales, and Billy Bob Thornton.
- A celebration of the teaching profession, and the power of a teacher's conviction that all students can learn. This profile of East Harlem Tech/PS 72's Kay Toliver has become one of the most-widely used staff development resources in the country. More than 10 awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award, the Gabriel Award and the Robert Townsend Social issues Award.
- A one-hour entertaining and inspiring TV special starring Jaime Escalante, the renowned math teacher who inspired the Academy Award nominated movie "Stand and Deliver," and his students, with guest appearances by Bill Cosby, Dizzy Gillespie, Teri Garr, Joe Piscopo, Marla Gibbs, Paul Rodriguez, Jeff Altman, Rosanna DeSoto, Paula Poundstone, Charles Fleischer, DL Hughley and world class professionals, engineers and designers at their workplaces from the FUTURES series. Starting in Jaime Escalante's East Los Angeles classroom, "Math...Who Needs It?!" is a fun and exciting adventure giving viewers a new perspective on how math is used in real life. From applications in skateboard design and today's high-tech roller-coasters to fashion (Macy's), sports (NIKE, Bell Helmets, GIRO) and music (Billy Joel, Amar Bose), you've never experienced math like this before!
- When Aunt Rosa places her dog, Hector, in Eddie's charge and Hector wanders off, Eddie is in a panic. While his friend Johnny searches, Eddie goes to school, where Miss Toliver is teaching a lesson on distance, time and speed. When class is over. Johnny and Eddie find themselves racing against Manhattan traffic to save Hector, while viewers find out from professionals with the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority just what it takes to move millions of people around the city every day. With some help from an eager subway guard and Hector's favorite hot dog vendor, Gus, Eddie and Johnny get on the right track. But in the final stretch, rescuing the dog depends on an understanding of distance, time and speed.
- Aunt Rosa needs a lot of help with her new apartment, but the last thing she expects is that she'll get it from her dog, Hector. But that's what happens when Hector displays true talent and is cast for a commercial by an eccentric Italian director (Robert Picardo). Producing the commercial turns out to be a little more adventurous than anyone expected, but the biggest surprise is the amount of math used by interior decorators and people who design and make the sets and models for "Star Trek." A surprise, that is, to everyone but Miss Toliver, whose lesson on apartment architecture really "sets the stage" for this episode.
- It looks like Eddie's photography hobby could pay off in a big way. Ms. Brooks, New York City's Deputy Mayor (Eileen T'Kaye), has chosen one of his photos as the centerpiece of a major new campaign to bring tourists into New York City. The theme of the campaign is "The Big Apple...Take a Bite," and Eddie's picture of his sister Dee eating pizza is exactly what the take-charge Ms. Brooks and her simpering graphic designer have been looking for. Everyone just loves the photo---everyone, that is, except Dee, who has already extracted a promise from Eddie never to show it to another soul. The campaign is ready for launch, and Eddie sees first hand how Ms. Toliver's percents lesson applies to the world of graphic design as he watches his photo resized and retouched for use in magazines, buses and billboards. (Viewers meantime see the real thing as designers at TBWA Chiat/Day reveal the tricks of the trade that are the basis of their new project for a major computer company [Apple Computer].) But even Aunt Rosa can't persuade Dee to change her mind. With his friend Vincent reveling in his self-appointed role as Eddie's agent, and Ms. Brooks chomping at the apple, Eddie has a real problem. Can he keep his promise to Dee without letting down the whole city?
- Eddie had always dreamed of being in the dugout with the New York Yankees, but he never imagined that the trail that would lead him there would start with Miss Toliver's lesson on statistics. Eddie decides to apply his new found knowledge to boost hot dog sales for his friend Gus, who presents Eddie with a batting glove left by none other than the Yankees' Wade Boggs. Aunt Rosa believes that the glove may just be what the batter needs to get out of his slump, and earns a chance to give it to him when she outsmarts a slick sports radio personality to win admission to the Yankees' dugout. While viewers go behind the scoreboard at Yankee stadium to meet the people who make careers out of baseball statistics, Aunt Rosa and Eddie try to stage a ninth-inning recovery for their losing team.
- Eddie would do almost anything for his little sister Dee, but this time his Mom's request goes too far. Eddie is to buy doll clothes for Dee's birthday. Though he learns a lot in Miss Toliver's lesson on clothing combinations and the counting principle, and gets the inside scoop from Mattel toy designers, Eddie still doesn't want the job, and neither does his friend Johnny. So, naturally, he recruits Vincent. Unfortunately, the result is not something he would have predicted...even with the counting principle. Only with the help of a salesperson wise to the ways of Barbie (Amy Jo Johnson) does Eddie have a chance of sorting things out.
- Kay Toliver's story about the history of pizza sends Eddie on a trail that leads to Sal's pizzeria, where the self-proclaimed best pizza maker in the world reveals a trade secret. In the kitchen of executive chef, Dennis Burrage, and the studio of renowned percussionist, Ndugu Chancler, Eddie discovers surprising things about fractions. Eddie's growing fascination with photography gets the attention of pros at the photo shop, and top sports photographer Tracey Frankel explains how understanding fractions can improve his picture taking.
- Who is Eddie, and how were his files born? It's the first week of school in math teacher Kay Toliver's class. The assignment: find out about jobs that people have and how they use math. Eddie's father happens to give him a camera and Vincent, the local photo shop owner, takes Eddie under his wing. Eddie takes his camera along as he tackles his math assignment, and his files "take off." Along the way he meets a judge, a dancer, a restaurant owner, a telephone technician, a sunglasses designer and a TV director. He also consults his Aunt Rosa. Eddie's work brings glowing praise from "Miss T," and a real awareness that math is everywhere.
- After Miss Toliver's lesson on circles, Eddie's homework assignment is to invent a machine. His friends Vincent and Tony have their own ideas, while Johnny extols the virtues of the simple bicycle. But finally Eddie gets his own inspiration: He's going to solve his vegetable problem. While viewers meet designers and product managers at GT Bicycles and American Honda, Eddie gets to work on the "Vegie-Stash-O-Matic." He even comes up with an infomercial to sell it, featuring frenetic salesman "Lonnie". Eddie's idea may or may not work, but either way, viewers will learn a lot about the practical uses of geometry.
- The math topic is decimals, the subject is money, and Eddie once again finds himself in the middle as he and his friend Vincent help a Secret Service Agent track down a counterfeiting ring. Eddie also consults with people whose job it is to create, safeguard, and trade our money supply, and learns something about foreign money from his Aunt Rosa and his friend Johnny. Things are not always what they seem, but Eddie realizes that if he uses his head---and what he learned in Miss Toliver's lesson---he can figure out the true value of a peso, a ruble or a questionable $100 bill.
- Sometimes you just have to estimate, as Eddie learns in an episode that starts out with Miss Toliver appearing as an Egyptian queen and ends up with a pretty good guess as to the dog population of New York City. The "queen," it turns out, needs to find out how many cat biscuits she has in a large bin, and the only way to find out is to estimate. At the end of this class assignment, Eddie is given the task of coming up with the number of dogs in New York City. With advice from photo shop owner, Vincent, and from his friend Johnny, a bike messenger, Eddie gets to work. He gets some tips from professionals who use estimation: a veterinarian, a bug farmer, and a bat expert. With all this in mind, and after some amusing experiences, Eddie discovers how to make a smart guess.
- After Miss T talks about polygons in class, Eddie starts seeing them in everything he looks at---the blackboard, notebooks, windows, the clock----and even in some humorously scary daydreams. As he explores the subject, construction workers, an inventor, an engineer and an architect demonstrate the ways polygons are used to create everything from skyscrapers to collapsible spheres.
- Every year Eddie's Aunt Ida enters one of her unusual culinary creations in East Harlem Community Center's annual dessert derby, and every year she wins...nothing. Apparently the judge, acclaimed and feared food critic Bones McDuff just doesn't share her tastes. This year looks like her toughest contest ever, as she goes up against Aunt Rosa's Melon Mountain Muffins and Vincent's Strawberry Skyscraper Souffle. Still, she is determined to win. For one thing, she knows that a good cook doesn't leave anything to chance, and as she follows the advice of food professionals by using charts and graphs to carefully prepare her recipe. Eddie knows that even Miss Toliver would be impressed by this mathematical approach. Maybe this year, Eddie thinks, Aunt Ida could have a chance...that is, that's what he thinks until he discovers that Aunt Ida's latest special ingredient is lima beans. Now it looks like nothing but a miracle could rescue her. But who would have guessed that she has a secret ally---Hector, the dog, the dessert taster used by one of New York's most successful chefs?!
- It's December at PS 72, and to Eddoe that means just one thing: getting ready for his big part in the annual holiday concert. It's just one note, but it has to be perfect, and Eddie's practice sessions with his school music teacher haven't been going too well. Eddie tries to get some tips as he watches his sister, Dee, prepare for a singing solo, his Aunt Rosa practice for her debut with the Hudson String Quartet, and his friend Vincent jamming with his jazz band. We even meet some professional musicians and composers, and find out how the theme for a movie like "Space Jam" gets created. All of this advice is useful, but, as it turns out, it is Miss Toliver's lesson on patterns that finally puts Eddie on the right track.
- Eddie faces one of his biggest challenges when, courtesy of a friend who recently moved out west, a young Ponderosa Pine ends up on his doorstep in need of a place to put down roots. After all, there aren't many places to plant a tree in Manhattan. Yet trees are an important part of the balance of nature, as we learn from Miss Toliver's lesson, and from the foresters and engineers who manage 22 million acres of national park land in the New Mexico wilderness. So, when Eddie gets a thumbs down from his building super, the policewoman on the beat, his friend Vincent and even Ranger Rex of the City Parks Department, the prospects start to look pretty bleak. Fortunately, his pal Johnny runs into a possible solution while delivering messages on his bicycle. With a little luck, some unwitting help from two city workers and the support of one of New York's most unusual radio talk show personalities, Glenda, Eddie's lonesome pine tree just might find a new home.
- In this episode, Eddie faces one of life's mysteries: Is there really such a thing as a "green thumb"? None of his classmates seem to be having any trouble growing sunflowers for Miss Toliver's study of variables. Btt, day after day, all he sees when he looks into his little pot of soil is... soil. Eddie tries everything he can think of, and gets more than enough advice from friends Vincent and Johny, his building superintendent, Fred and his Aunt Rosa. Even the pros chip in, with insights from the leaders of New York's Green Guerilla rooftop gardeners, and the manager of a huge rice farm (Lundberg Farms) in the broad, flat fields of rural northern California. But all to no avail. Eddie starts to think that as far as green thumbs go, either you have one or you don't---and he doesn't. But after a chance encounter with someone he knows very well, but has never met (NY radio personality Glenda), Eddie digs up an answer.
- Manhattan has millions of people, and they use lots and lots of water. But what if that supply were cut off, just for one day? It's that thought that launches Eddie on a creative essay on the consequences of no water. Certainly it would create lots of problems for Eddie's Aunt Rosa and his friends Vincent and Johnny. What's worse. it would be a really "bad hair day", especially for the roving reporter (Nancy Glass) who is covering the story. Miss Toliver, of course, would see it as a wonderful teaching opportunity for a lesson on volume measurement. But it would also give Eddie a chance to meet the people who build water tanks, reservoirs, and huge underground tunnels to supply water to the city of New York, making sure that the only way Manhattan will ever run dry is in Eddie's imagination.