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Career Details :: Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Description

Teach courses pertaining to mathematical concepts, statistics, and actuarial science and to the application of original and standardized mathematical techniques in solving specific problems and situations.

Experience

Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Education

A bachelor's degree is the minimum formal education required for these occupations. However, many also require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Training

Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Tasks

• Prepares and delivers lectures to students.
• Compiles bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.
• Advises students on academic and vocational curricula.
• Conducts research in particular field of knowledge and publishes findings in professional journals.
• Serves on faculty committee providing professional consulting services to government and industry.
• Acts as adviser to student organizations.
• Directs research of other teachers or graduate students working for advanced academic degrees.
• Compiles, administers, and grades examinations, or assigns this work to others.
• Stimulates class discussions.

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Important Abilities

• Written Comprehension
• Oral Expression
• Mathematical Reasoning
• Written Expression
• Number Facility

General Work Activities

• Teaching Others
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
• Communicating With Other Workers
• Interpreting Meaning of Information to Others
• Updating & Using Job-Relevant Knowledge

Important Skills

• Mathematics
  
• Instructing
  
• Reading Comprehension
  
• Learning Strategies
  
• Active Learning
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
• Supervise, Coach, Train Others
• Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
• Objective or Subjective Information

Related Majors

Major	Add to XapPack
Actuarial Science	[ add ]
Actuarial Science/Business	[ add ]
Actuarial Sciences	[ add ]
Actuarial Studies	[ add ]
Actuarial/Mathematical Science	[ add ]
Administrative Mathematics	[ add ]
Aeronautics/Applied Mathematics	[ add ]
Applied Mathematics	[ add ]
Applied Mathematics/Computer Science	[ add ]
Applied Mathematics/Statistics	[ add ]
Applied Statistical Analysis	[ add ]
Applied Statistics	[ add ]
Applied/Computational Mathematics	[ add ]
Banking/Finance	[ add ]
Biostatistics	[ add ]
Business Administration/Finance	[ add ]
Business Financial Management	[ add ]
Business/Finance	[ add ]
Business/Management/Finance	[ add ]
Business/Mathematics	[ add ]
Commerce/Finance	[ add ]
Computational Mathematics	[ add ]
Computational Sciences	[ add ]
Computational/Applied Mathematics	[ add ]
Computer Mathematics	[ add ]
Computer Science/Applied Mathematics	[ add ]
Computer Science/Applied Statistics	[ add ]
Computer Science/Mathematics	[ add ]
Computer/Mathematical Sciences	[ add ]
Corporate Financial Management	[ add ]
Economics/Finance	[ add ]
Economics/Mathematics	[ add ]
Farm Business Management/Finance	[ add ]
Finance	[ add ]
Finance/Banking	[ add ]
Finance/Business	[ add ]
Finance/Economics	[ add ]
Finance/Financial Services	[ add ]
Finance/Insurance	[ add ]
Finance/International Business	[ add ]
Finance/Investments	[ add ]
Finance/Marketing	[ add ]
Finance/Pre-Law	[ add ]
Finance/Real Estate	[ add ]
Finance/Real Estate/Law	[ add ]
Financial Management	[ add ]
Financial Planning/Services	[ add ]
Financial Services	[ add ]
Financial Services/Planning	[ add ]
Financial Services/Risk Management	[ add ]
Insurance/Finance	[ add ]
International Business Finance	[ add ]
Interscience	[ add ]
Logic/Computation	[ add ]
Management Economics/Operations Research	[ add ]
Mathematical Economics	[ add ]
Mathematical Science	[ add ]
Mathematical Sciences	[ add ]
Mathematical Statistics	[ add ]
Mathematics	[ add ]
Mathematics/Actuarial Science	[ add ]
Mathematics/Applied	[ add ]
Mathematics/Business Administration	[ add ]
Mathematics/Computer Science	[ add ]
Mathematics/Computer Studies	[ add ]
Mathematics/Computers	[ add ]
Mathematics/Economics	[ add ]
Mathematics/Engineering	[ add ]
Mathematics/Management	[ add ]
Mathematics/Management Science	[ add ]
Mathematics/Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering	[ add ]
Mathematics/Operations Research	[ add ]
Mathematics/Philosophy	[ add ]
Mathematics/Physical Sciences	[ add ]
Mathematics/Physics	[ add ]
Mathematics/Statistics	[ add ]
Natural Science/Mathematics	[ add ]
Natural Sciences/Mathematics	[ add ]
Natural Sciences/Mathematics/Astronomy	[ add ]
Operations Management/Operations Research	[ add ]
Operations Research	[ add ]
Operations Research Engineering	[ add ]
Operations Research/Engineering	[ add ]
Operations Research/Industrial Engineering	[ add ]
Operations Research/Management Science	[ add ]
Operations Research/Statistics	[ add ]
Physics/Mathematics	[ add ]
Pre-Engineering Mathematics	[ add ]
Quantitative Analysis	[ add ]
Quantitative Methods/Finance	[ add ]
Science/Mathematics	[ add ]
Science/Mathematics/Computer Studies	[ add ]
Statistics	[ add ]
Statistics/Biometry	[ add ]
Statistics/Computer Science	[ add ]
Statistics/Operations Research	[ add ]

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