Question Man (Joey Kola) visits a rent-to-own store and figures out if it's better to rent or own a washing machine; on "Sports Smarts," WNBA Utah Starzz player Olympia Scott-Richardson shows how she uses a day planner to manage her time and activities; on "Street Beat," NYPD Blue star Dennis Franz gives a tip on reading the newspaper; Laverne (Liz Torres) helps a customer estimate the cost of a painting job and how to figure out the take-home pay; and on "Words Behind the Music", singer/songwriter Toshi Reagon writes a song on the spot especially for TV411. Plus, a pop quiz about credit card debt, and "Buzzword" explains the word "analogy."

"Lifelines" shows a couple who are eager to buy their first home how to read a mortgage chart; "Dictionary Cinema" explains how to use a thesaurus; Question Man (Joey Kola) figures out how to understand the graphs and numbers on his utility bill; "Street Beat" gives a tip on evaluating written information; and "Milestones" profiles four Long Beach, CA students who call themselves "The Freedom Writers" and use pen and paper to fight prejudice and intolerance. Plus, a pop quiz about volunteering, and "Buzzword" explains the word "anomaly."

Question Man (Joey Kola) learns that you don't need a college education to read a big city newspaper; ABC's Good Morning America news anchor Antonio Mora hosts a report on multiple intelligences on "Straight to the Source"; "Street Beat" gives a tip on finding government listings in the phone book; former Olympian and tennis pro Zina Garrison explains percentiles and ranking on "Sports Smarts"; and on "Write Now with Jimmy Santiago Baca," the award-winning poet and TV411 contributor shows a group of adults how to summarize a poem. Plus, a pop quiz about the US Census, and "Buzzword" explains the word "dynamics."

ABC's Good Morning America news anchor Antonio Mora hosts a report on different learning styles on "Straight to the Source"; "Milestones" profiles a Baltimore, MD based steel worker, John Deitsch, and his continuing quest to pass the GED; "Street Beat" offers a tip on how to summarize almost anything; Laverne (Liz Torres) explains how to understand and use the unit price labels on store shelves; and on "Write Now with Jimmy Santiago Baca," the award-winning poet and TV411 contributor shares his own personal learning journey and how he came "into language." Plus, a pop quiz about adults in college, and "Buzzword" explains the word "marginalized."

Laverne (Liz Torres) shows a customer how to understand probability and odds when it comes to reading a brochure on breast cancer; "Dictionary Cinema" explains how the same word can have different meanings; "Milestones" profiles North Carolina based author Elizabeth Daniels Squire and how she has written eight best-selling novels, despite the fact that she's dyslexic; "Street Beat" gives a tip on learning new words and how to remember them; and ABC's Good Morning America news anchor Antonio Mora hosts a report on dyslexia. Plus, a pop quiz about water and the human body, and Buzzword explains the word "genetics."

"Sports Smarts" features Olympic medalist Marion Jones running through the concept of rate; a new strand introduces two math-savvy Calculating Women who take charge of an overweight friend's calorie-counting; a "Lifelines" segment explores smart ways to manage multiple medications; "Straight to the Source" asks mind mentor Michael Gelb to demonstrate an innovative technique for improving memory; Michael Beech of TV's Third Watch offers tips for handling an emergency.

In the backseat of a stretch limo, Question Man (Joey Kola) gets financial advice from a millionaire; in "Lifelines," an entrepreneurial teenage parent gets help starting up a small lollipop business as he pursues his GED; those math-savvy Calculating Women estimate and calculate their way to an affordable cell phone plan; "Straight to the Source" asks a federal con-buster to reveal the math behind money scams.

A "Lifelines" segment presents strategies for reading comprehension on the GED; a new strand, "Math Behind the Arts," features TV chef Curtis Aikens explaining ratios and cooking; a "Milestones" portrait traces how one man left prison and low literacy behind; TV411's revamped "Book Club" finds out what happens when an entire Midwestern town reads the same novel.

Question Man Joey Kola figures out how to decipher legalese; a "Milestones" portrait shows how an out-of-work Appalachian coal miner succeeded in changing careers; TV411's math-minded Calculating Women explore strategies for building up retirement savings; "Math Behind the Arts" features a New York City artist who works with clay and the formula for area when she makes tiles for the subway.

The Calculating Women, TV411's math mavens, offer tips on how to avoid credit card debt; "Milestones" focuses on a New York man who, despite a reading disability, teaches others how to pass motor vehicle exams; Laverne (Liz Torres) dispenses sound advice about reading over-the-counter medicine labels and following prescriptions; on "Sports Smarts," three well-traveled Harlem Globetrotters demonstrate how to read a world map.

Newly minted writer Kathi Wellington enlivens a "Milestones" segment with her vivid stories of being a female steelworker; "Math Behind the Arts" visits origami artist June Sakamoto for a lesson on basic geometry; a TV411 special invites parents and children to interpret art and symbolism at a Philadelphia museum; "On Words Behind the Poetry," Broadway performers from Russell Simmon's Def Poetry Jam demonstrate how writing poetry can be hot and cool.

"Math Behind the Arts" asks a professional drummer and dancers from the Broadway hit, Forty-Second Street, to demonstrate fractions in action; on a TV411 special, a female carpenter shows how math and measurement are critical to her work; "Sports Smarts" taps the expertise of Mets pitcher Al Leiter on the perimeter of a baseball diamond; Laverne (Liz Torres) explains the concept of percentages and multiple mark-downs to bargain-hunting patrons of the Big Store.

This task presents a foundational result in geometry, presented with deliberately sparse guidance in order to allow a wide variety of approaches. Teachers should of course feel free to provide additional scaffolding to encourage solutions or thinking in one particular direction. We include three solutions which fall into two general approaches, one based on reference to previously-derived results (e.g., the Pythagorean Theorem), and another conducted in terms of the geometry of rigid transformations.

The construction of the tangent line to a circle from a point outside of the circle requires knowledge of a couple of facts about circles and triangles. First, students must know, for part (a), that a triangle inscribed in a circle with one side a diameter is a right triangle. This material is presented in the tasks ''Right triangles inscribed in circles I.'' For part (b) students must know that the tangent line to a circle at a point is characterized by meeting the radius of the circle at that point in a right angle: more about this can be found in ''Tangent lines and the radius of a circle.''

This task is not about computing the final price of the shirt but about using the structure in the computation to make a general argument.

This simple conceptual problem does not require algebraic manipulation, but requires students to articulate the reasoning behind each statement.

In this task students are given graphs of quantities related to weather. The purpose of the task is to show that graphs are more than a collection of coordinate points, that they can tell a story about the variables that are involved and together they can paint a very complete picture of a situation, in this case the weather.

These unit conversion problems provide a rich source of examples both for composition of functions (when several successive conversions are required) and inverses (units can always be converted in either of two directions).

Temperature conversions provide a rich source of linear functions which are encountered not only in science but also in our every day lives when we travel abroad. The first part of this task provides an opportunity to construct a linear function given two input-output pairs. The second part investigates the inverse of a linear function while the third part requires reasoning about quantities and/or solving a linear equation.

The purpose of this task is to assess ability to interpret the slope and intercept of the least squares regression line in context.