She does math! real-life problems from women on the job /

She does math! real-life problems from women on the job / [electronic resource] : Marla Parker, editor. - [Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, c1995. - xv, 253 p. : ill., ports. - Classroom resource materials . - Classroom resource materials (Unnumbered) .

Presents the career histories of 38 professional women describing how much math each took in high school and college, how she chose her field of study, and how she ended up in her current job. Each woman presents several problems typical of those she had to solve on the job using mathematics.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9781614441052 (electronic bk.)




Women in mathematics--United States.
Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.


Electronic books.

QA27.5 / .S53 1995

510/.23