Math at Work

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	Math at Work: Women in Nontraditional Careers


	NTO: nontraditional occupation


	DVD 15 minutes; $95.00 Order #25003; ISBN #978-1-60118-003-2 Resource guide 114 pages, $45.00 Order #25002; ISBN #978-1-877933-85-1.

		Thirteen women ranging from a helicopter pilot, an architect, a police officer, and a firefighter, to machinists and welders, highlight how they use mathematics on the job. "Superior" --School Library Journal. "Recommended" --School to Work News.

	From Math at Work: Women in Nontraditional Careers DVD: Copyright © Jocelyn Riley

“I really had a hard time with math until I got into welding and then I found out how the numbers related to what I was actually doing. There’s pictures and numbers with the blueprints and, rather than just playing with numbers on a piece of paper, now they had some relevance and then it became interesting.”
--Welder

“You have to have math skills.”
--Apprentice Plumber

“Everybody has a print and is working on different things and when you come together in the end the whole thing has to fit together, so we work within ten-thousandths of an inch. . . .”
--Mold-Making Apprentice (Machinist)

“You do use a lot of math. You don’t have to be a math genius. . . . You need to be able to calculate distance.”
--National Guard Helicopter Pilot

“I never thought of myself as being a mathematically inclined individual particularly at all, but in point of fact I can take an accurate measurement and I can use formulas to figure out what I need to fabricate. . . .”
--Sheetmetal Worker

“I have to do a fuel report, which involves a heck of a lot of math. . . . I do math every day now. We dip our tanks; we have fuel tanks that we fill up the trucks with and that requires not even very complicated math, but a lot of adding and subtracting, multiplying, and figuring out how the fuel is doing.”
--Firefighter

“And now it sounds kind of silly because I’m forty years old and when I had to do anything math-wise I would freeze up and panic. . . . They always say the light will come on and you’ll finally understand what you’re looking at and it did. That was one of my greatest achievements--that I finally learned a skill and wasn’t afraid of numbers anymore.”
--Machinist


114-page Resource Guide -- Contents:

	Profiles of Thirteen Contemporary Women in Nontraditional Careers Who Use Math at Work Viewing Notes for Math at Work: Women in Nontraditional Careers DVD DVD Script Discussion-Starters Discussion Questions Resources/Bibliography

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