The Mathematical Association of America 272pp. Real Life Problems from Women on the Job A valuable resource for grades 9 through the first two years of college. Each of the women presents a problem she has faced in her job which she solved using mathematics. Your daughter, your grand daughter, your sister, your former math teachers, your students - and young men, too, will want to know how the math they study is applied, and this book will show them. By reading the career histories of the women profiled in this book, young people will learn that if they take mathematics courses every year in high school and college they will be able to enter interesting technical fields and earn good salaries.
Students get practical information about the job market presented in an interesting, innovative way.
This will prove especially useful to students who are starting to think seriously about possible career choices. Strong female role models are presented. Girls need these role models to help them imagine themselves in good jobs. Girls and boys need these role models to help imagine themselves working professionally with women. The problems are interesting and challenging.