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-americans, which they are. and i m not against them, actually. i think they are probably mostly nice people. i think the government has a duty first and foremost to protect its own people. in new jersey i used to live in the state so i knew, too. its cities crumbling and dangerous and the schools are terrible. where is the emphasis on
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 they are. and i m not against them, actually. i think they are probably mostly nice people. the government hats duty first and foremost to protect its own people. in new jersey i used to live in the state so i knew, too. has cities crumbling and that pa they thick and dangerous and the schools are terrible. where is the emphasis on that. i don t know where you say the schools is terrible. governor m
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. tuesday night i was helping my son with his common core homework, and there s just a lot of terminology in there, and i didn t get t i didn t understand it, and it s just very frustrating. the next morning, woke up, got
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 rather than teaching to a certain grade or for a certain test. shep? shepard: why do the critics call this move backtracking? they say it s backtracking because some states like california, texas, massachusetts, actually have higher standards in math than this common core program is calling for. and especially here in california, remember the economy is so tied into the high tech