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- From: petry@corona.math.washington.edu (David Petry)
- Subject: Re: Minimum standards for math "competency"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.022327.27944@u.washington.edu>
- Keywords: math competency education university college standards
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- Organization: University of Washington, Mathematics, Seattle
- References: <1992Nov18.165157.14599@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1339@kepler1.rentec.com> <1992Nov23.021123.22797@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:23:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.021123.22797@linus.mitre.org> crawford@boole.mitre.org (Randy Crawford) writes:
- >In article <1339@kepler1.rentec.com> rjfrey@rentec.com (Robert J Frey) writes:
- >>If you want I can snail mail you a copy of the presentation. Here however are a
- >>few facts:
- >>
- >> o The Jobs Almanac's top 5 jobs are all mathematically based:
- >> actuary, computer programmer, systems analyst, mathematician
- >> and statistician.
- >
- >A greater need is anticipated for systems analysts and mathematicians than for
- >nurses or accountants? First time I've heard that. Sounds dubious.
-
- Maybe the jobs are "top" jobs in the sense of the satisfaction they bring to
- those who have the jobs?
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- >> o The math scores of the top 1% of American high school students
- >> would place them in the 50th percentile in Japan (that's not
- >> a typo). How can we expect to compete with Japan in high tech
- >> manufacturing?
- >
- >I'll step out on a limb here and say: RUBBISH! Such a statement _has_ to be
- >completely wrong.
-
- It wouldn't surprise me much if the MEAN score of students in the American
- high schools which rate among the top 1% of all American high schools is
- about equal to the MEAN score of students in the Japanese high schools which
- rate in the 50th percentile among Japanese high schools. That's the kind of
- statistic which appears in the recent Scientific American article comparing
- Asian and American students.
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- David Petry
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