It's often been said that math is an opportunity gateway. After all, some of the best jobs out there require degrees that have the higher maths. Having said that, an interesting trend that's been emerging is that more and more there's a growing need in jobs that require statistics. With the growing need for research comes the growing need for analyzing data; usually for improvement. Improvement in; production, sales, student achievement, advertisign, better pharmaceuticals, just to name a few. A background in stats is a grad's best friend!
Take Carrie Grimes for instance. Carrie uses statistical analysis of endless amounts of data to figure outways to improve its search engine. Carrie's story can be found in the New York Times And, if that doesn't convince you, have a look at the Career Centre at the American Statistical Association.
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Agree.
Parents are cottoning on to this, at least as far as we’ve seen at Math-Whizz. We teach elementary math, including basic statistical methods, online. Anecdotally, many of the parents struggle with mean, median, mode and the like, and they want their kids to do better. We’d like to hope there’s a Google analyst of the future amongst our Math-Whizzers…
Hi Deb,
Very much agree to your point. But then why is it that Maths and Science are things kids run away from the most
. How can these 2 subjects be made fun for the kids so that the motivation to learn comes from within and not through some external pressure. Keep sharing.