Connecting Math to Our Lives and Careers

Connecting Math to Our Lives and Careers Paul Wong

Hi! My name is Paul Wong and I am a bilingual teacher at San Francisco Unified School District teaching math and science to 7th and 8th grade students whose primary language is Cantonese.

I have started a project with my students aiming to relate math with future careers that students are interested at. We have some discussions in class and students made up questionnaires to take home and interviewed friends and relatives on how math can help them to succeed at work. Students have also done some research on different careers and wrote reports on their findings. Some of the professions that they are interested at are: Architect, Accountant, Actuary and Astronaut. We are now looking for contacts whom we can send e-mails to and find out more on the part of math in career development.
Eventually, my class will use video conferencing to talk to different professionals so that they may have some first hand information without leaving their classroom. Your names were given to me by our technology consultant, Kristin Brown.

I greatly appreciate your input in our project. I can be reached at Pwong@muse.sfusd.k12.ca.us or pkmgwong@hotmail.com

Paul Wong