It comes from a documentary that will air tomorrow night on most of these PBS stations. The reporter is John Merrow. According to the U.S. Department of education, schools will need over two million new teachers in the next decade. Because of new laws requiring smaller classes, because many teachers are retiring, and because enrollments are rising. A teacher shortage does not mean classrooms full of kids without adults in charge.
School districts have to put an adult in front of the room.
Area is equal to 16 squared. Okay, now, let's talk about squaring numbers. In this ninth grade math class in Cuthbert, Georgia, Elizabeth Jackson is explaining how to find the area of a square. That answer is incomplete. She should have said 256 square centimeters.