First hour: Has there been a leftward shift in politics at the state and national level?
Second hour: How do we use the math we're taught in school?Has there been a leftward shift in politics at the state and national level? It's a question we explore with members of the Working Families Party. We talk about the party's legislative priorities and how they view progressivism on multiple levels. Our guests:
- Sochie Nnaemeka, director of the New York Working Families Party
- Stevie Vargas, education organizer and chair of the Rochester Chapter of the Working Families Party
- Emma Leigh, chapter member of the Working Families Party
Then in our second hour, a grade-school math problem went viral last month when math teachers around the world couldn't agree on how to find the answer. The equation was short, and seemingly called for the old formula of PEMDAS. So why was it so confusing? And if math teachers can't agree, can the rest of us assume we've learned enough math to practically apply it? We have some fun with math and explore how we do, and don't, use what we were taught in school. Our guests:
- Amanda Tucker, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Rochester
- Ajamu Kitwana, vice president and director of community impact at ESL Federal Credit Union
- Brian Koberlein, astrophysicist and science writer with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
