Part 1 of Essay
Many jobs in today's labor market require a mathematics or science background. A number of these are among the fastest growing occupations nationally, and they are not jobs ordinarily thought of as "technical.” Jobs that once required little background in mathematics now call for specific skills in algebra, geometry, meas ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... They ask questions such as: How can we be sure that what we predict from our small sample is true of the population being sampled? Questions like this are answered using probability theory. This is a branch of mathematics which is important, but which also provides theoretical underpinning for statistics. Without the knowledge of math, statisticians would not be able to use such surveys. Statisticians solve problems, working both singly and in collaboration with people in other fields. Being a statistical dat ....