# Calculating Change ★ A "Lost" Annenberg Teaching Documentary

Calculating Change ★ A Teacher's Resource Video More series information page: https://web.archive.org/web/20090213141428/http://learner.org/resources/series36.html A video documentary for educators and parents on math and science education reform; 1 one-hour video program This inspiring video documentary is a call to action that shows how parents and communities can work together to promote better, more creative math and science education. It provides an excellent overview of the need for and issues surrounding math and science reform. This 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.…

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 1994
- By: WNET
- Genres: Documentary, Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/calculating-change)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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