Without math, the access to many other intellectual achievements are
foreclosed. The modern world cannot be adequately understood without some
knowledge and understanding of statistics, physics, astronomy, economics.
Those subjects are mysterious to math-deprived people, just as history,
literature, and law cannot be mastered by people with serious language
deficiencies.
People do not only work; they vote, read newspapers, make decisions and
exercise their right to publicly express their opinions about governmental
budgets, education... Those who do not have a good command of math have
little hope of developing well-reasoned judgements about many of the
very technical and complex issues this complicated world.
John M. Flanigan <johnf@hawaii.edu> The equation is the final arbiter.
Assistant Professor, Mathematics --Werner Heisenberg
Kapi'olani Community College The scoreboard is the final arbiter.
Honolulu, Hawaii --Bill Walton
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Phil Mahler wrote:
> George.Lewis@tpwd.state.tx.us writes:
> >Is there anyone out there who could tell me the date of that original
> >column by Marilyn vos Savant re: the usefulness of mathematics in "the
> >real world". Or someone may be able to send it via email. Or someone may
> >be able to cite whatever study she referred to in the column. If nothing
> >else, does anyone have a good cite on this topic?
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >
> >George Lewis
>
> >From the MATHEDCC Archives:
> http://archives.math.utk.edu/hypermail/mathedcc/aug98/0007.html
> ----------------------------------------
> 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.
> -----------------------------------------
> Phil Mahler
> Middlesex Community College
> Bedford, MA
>
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