Most high-paying jobs need solid math skills like statistics and numeracy, not calculus. Yet K-12 math classes ignore this gap, leaving students without the practical foundation employers actually want.
Not only math, an important part of the majority of careers that are in the country in some way, shape or form, but definitely overrepresented in those where you're going to make more money. And here's, here's maybe the punchline. Very, very, very few of these careers require any use of calculus, or quite frankly, advanced algebra even. And so like most of them, require just a strong grasp of real world applications of math like statistics and fluency and basic math concepts and confidence that you actually understand these things and practical application of them. And so I just would say this is so contrary to my experience in K12, where almost no one is focused on math for career opportunities and success. Like, I don't think I ever had that conversation in K12.
