Community Development Concepts
What math skills learned in class do community college Workforce Development graduates use on the job?
I ‘m a math education graduate student with the goal of obtaining a faculty position at a community college. I am interested in learning more about Workforce Development at community colleges. I am embarrassed to admit that, although I enjoy doing math and thinking about mathematical concepts for their own sake, I rarely use these skills for anything practical.
With the above question, I want to compare and contrast the required math courses for various Workforce Development programs and the math actually used in these fields on the job itself. From this, I hope to learn how effective and relevant are community college math course curriculums for Workforce Development careers on the job in WD fields (i.e. nursing, electronics, nuclear medicine).
As an Engineer who has gone through many math courses, I can say that I have not used any college level math on the job. The only math used on the job is addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, ratios, and percentages.
While the college level math is not used, I feel that a new form of thinking was formed to assist in problem solving on the job.
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