Math

• Math Teacher
• Statisticians

To become a math teacher, you must possess a deep understanding of mathematics, as well as a keen interest in teaching young people. You should obtain a bachelor's and a masters degree in education with a minor in math, or a major in math and a minor in education. By teaching math at the middle and high school levels, you'll help students understand mathematical structures, conjecture and verify solutions, think hypothetically, and comprehend cause and effect. By middle school, math curriculum entails significant amounts of algebra and geometry, which are crucial steppingstones to higher math and logic studies. At the high school level, you'll teach a broader range of math studies, including advanced algebra, geometry, statistics, probability, trigonometry and pre-calculus. Responsibilities of math teachers are: maintaining regularly office hours, planning, evaluating, and revising curriculum course content, and course materials and methods of instruction, initiating, facilitating, and moderating classrooms, providing their classes with such materials as text books, advising students on academic and vocational curriculum and on career issues participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities, performing administrative duties such as serving as department head, conducting research in a particular field of knowledge, evaluating and grading students' class work, assignments, and papers, preparing and delivering lectures to undergraduate and/or graduate students on topics such as linear algebra, differential equations, and discrete mathematics, preparing course homework assignments, and handouts, and/or acting as advisers to student organizations. Mathematics teachers make $58, 560 on a nationwide scale.

Statisticians are concerned with the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of quantitative information. They work in a range of sectors including health, education, government, finance, the environment, transportation, and market research as well as throughout industry, business, and commerce. A statistician is responsible for using various tools and methods to interpret data and provide insight while measuring results. A statistician must take a hands-on approach to finding conclusive data where directed and assist all necessary parties in reading that information and taking the appropriate actions. Other duties, depending on the job, will be to analyze and sample information from target markets. On a nationwide scale, statisticians make an average of $69, 900.