European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 02, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes wednesday october 2, 1985 races n places math on to seems of add up from press dispatches with president Reagan ind Man  giving America s students failing grades in math inc makers of  Street arc producing a new television series designed to stimulate math interest while looking ,1 lot like mtg and sctt added together. The children s television workshop creators of Public television s sesame  the electric company and "3-2-1  announced at a news conference that production will Start in Early 1986 on what it Calls the most expensive single project for Chil Dren in to history. The count. Sesame streets numbers Freak would go wild counting off the show s s16 million funding budget that comes from such disparate sources As As the . Department of education inc National science foundation the corporation for Public i broadcasting and id. Ism contributed $59.5 million to american universities last year and now is investing in the to school ing of Young students so they can better compete in the technological future where working smarter not harder will be the Alc  said d,1. Jewis Brans comb. Ism s chief scientist. The unfitted 30-minute program is scheduled to Start on Public to weekday afternoons in january i9s7. The producers Hope the series will be used in a trip through history Gerard Conoit push into la Hudson Khmer that at Albany n. Y., after tracing la tout once Uttz by fur Trade Between Manfred and Albany. Conoit rout started from the Richelieu River through last Champlain and ended at the Hud ten. It took id Doyt. Classrooms and Are giving teachers permission to tape the programs. The target audience is kids age s-12. Well try to get children especially girls and minorities interested in math before they learn they re not supposed to be interested in math " said David Formalin show s executive producer. Besides the traditional topics of counting arithmetic and measurement the curriculum will include Alge Bra probability and geometry. The age of Reading riling and Rith Cutic Are Long gone said George Tressel a member of the supporting National science foundation. Mathematics is the language of every science and technology said Tressel. We desperately need to encourage our children to learn this  Reagan  raised concerns about America losing the math and science race to students abroad most notably to those in Japan. When 20 nations were tested for arithmetic kills in a 1982 International educational achievement study. American eighth graders came in 10th. The crisis in mathematics education  been widely recognized in this country said Joan Ganz Cooney president of cow. Our new math series represents a National Effort to do something about  Cooney said the series will make math fun and i us tract its everyday applications while discrediting a popu Lar notion expressed by one student to cow researchers i hate math More than 1 Hale  cow will have its work Cut out for it making math appealing enough to compete with the plethora of to choices including the fast paced mtg music Channel on Cable. We know it takes a lot to glue kids to the set said Connell who was the original executive producer of sesame Street we know that s our  Connell said the format will utilize parody similar to the Way Abc s sctt which starred John Candy and Martin Short lampooned to programs. The show will satirize every to form from soap operas to game shows to weather forecasts to get its numerical Mes sages across. The programs also will make use of music music videos special effects and animation. If the show is entertaining children will watch it said Cooney. Earlier this year the corporation for Public broadcast ing Public to s financial Arm passed a Resolution stating that children s television remained its no. I priority. In this age of Federal cutbacks to Public to. Cab  in creased its funding for children s programming. Loksa Luck on lottery your chances of winning the $2 million grind prize in the California lottery Are about the same As flipping a Quarter and having it come up Heads 25 limes in a Row or making 25 straight passes at craps an iffy enter prise at Best. If you were a Gambler who wanted to win some Money this would t be the Way to do it said mathematics professor Peter Griffin of California stat University Sacramento. The first tickets for the California lottery go on Sale oct. 3. Officials say it  the potential for jackpots a Large As si00 million. Don t count on being a big Winner. Griffin said. A Lucky 16 players could win $2 million each but 90 of 90 How did golfer Emanuel Bradley print to Cele brate hit 90th birthday he played Vul notes of Golf of course. A special event to Mark Bradley $ birthday was held at a West Palm Beach ha., Golf course. Proceeds from the game went for cancer research. Their chances Are just 1 in 25 million. Winning the grand prize in the lottery would be roughly equivalent to winning 25 straight passes at craps or picking the precise order of finish in an 11 horse race where All the horses were equally fast Griffin said. You have a better Chance of being dealt six consecutive blackjacks in 21 than you do winning the grand prize in the  Alan Fenech a statistics expert at the University of California a is said it s a ridiculous game to from a rational Point of  i play hunger information published an organization whose goal is to rid the world of hunger by the year 2,000  published a Book designed to be a major source of information. 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