One should hope that study of mathematics beyond arithmetic will at the
very least force people to try to think logically. It would be nice if
they also came away able to analyze information in the newspapers, etc.
I am well and truly sick of listening to students whine "What is this ever
going to be good for?"
What is our business, anyway? Is it education, or is it job training? If
it is education, then people should quit complaining about having to learn
things they are not certain they will ever use. If it is job training,
then we should eliminate required history and phys. ed., I shouldn't have
been forced to play basketball and softball . . .
Lillie Crowley
At 09:29 PM 8/29/98 -1000, John M. Flanigan wrote:
>I'm always somewhat more than a little concerned that even educators seem
>sometimes to behave as though the purpose of education is merely to
>produce employees. Math is needed for students to become educated persons!
>Society requires that sufficiently many citizens be able to read a
>newspaper knowledgably, vote with some understanding of issues, etc. How
>can anyone argue that some students don't need math just because their
>proposed occupation does not specifically require it?
>
>John M. Flanigan <johnf@hawaii.edu> The equation is the final arbiter.
>Assistant Professor --Werner Heisenberg
>Kapi'olani Community College The scoreboard is the final arbiter.
>Honolulu, Hawaii --Bill Walton
>
>
>On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Phil Mahler wrote:
>
>> Ask Marilyn
>> By Marilyn vos Savant
>> Parade Magazine, Sunday, August 30, 1998
>>
>> What jobs are available, it any, that do not require any high school math?
>> -Barbara Zbikowski, Port Washington, Wis.
>>
>> I often encounter questions to which I feel strongly that I know the
answer,
>> but in order to make sure that I give you facts (if that's what you want)
>> instead of opinion, I back up my answer with an authority. This is one of
>> those times.
>>
>> I was confident that many jobs don't require high school math, but I
didn't
>> want to be, accused of wishful thinking, so we consulted the Bureau of
Labor
>> Statistics. Jon Sargent, an economist at the Office of Employment
>> Projections, confirmed that a large number of jobs - perhaps even the
>> majority - don't require high school math (like algebra, for example). But
>> most do require elementary math, meaning arithmetic. Only manual labor
jobs
>> require no math at all.
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> FYI
>> Philip Mahler
>> Middlesex CC
>> Bedford, MA
>>
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