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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.
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Phil Mahler
Middlesex Community College
Bedford, MA
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