Teacher serves as inspiration for 'Stand and Deliver'
By Orrin Konheim, staff writer

After delivering his speech, Jaime Escalante takes time out of interviews and handshakes for an eager parent and her daughter who wanted him to demonstrate a multiplication trick he did on stage with his fingers. Escalante takes out a piece of paper and wows the pair with all sorts of calculations — that could otherwise only be done with a calculator or tireless arithmetic — and suddenly math becomes fun again. More...