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Week: Math Will Rock Your World
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Week: Math Will Rock Your World
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Week: Math Will Rock Your World
According to a recent article in Business Week, "the world is moving
into a new age of numbers." Business is discovering what we have long
known: mathematics permeates the world around us, and there are very
few problems that don't admit to quantitative analysis. To see more,
read the January 23 cover story,
"Math
Will Rock Your World."
This article is just one sign that the need for a more
quantitatively-literate society is getting the attention of the
business community. The Business
Roundtable has recently published a report,
Tapping America's Potential: The Education for Innovation Initiative,
which also makes a case to dramatically increase the level of math and
science education.
On January 31, President Bush referred to the relationship between our
competitiveness as a nation and our success at improving education as
well, and in particular called for large increases in spending on
research (and in particular at the NSF) as well as for initiatives to
train AP teachers. Be on the lookout for news and initiatives that
follow up on some of these trends. One place to look is on the MAA Science Policy
Committee site.
News Date:
Friday, February 17, 2006
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