"That being said, I do agree that too many students avoid math-heavy fields, and that’s a problem."
Students can be helped study maths by using good tools for practicing, one example that springs to mind is the Moodle STACK question type, which I will be presenting next Tuesday April 1st for the Moodle Academy, read more here
https://moodle.academy/calendar/view.php?view=day&course=1&time=1743494400#event_26872
End of shameless plug.
What is, and what is not useful both to the individual and society is a very contested issue. For example there is an argument that studying the creative arts such as music and dance is "froth on the top of society"
Yet no society has ever existed without these things, they are far more embedded in who we are than management consultancy, or even maths. In the UK "The government estimates that creative industries generated £126bn in gross value added to the economy and employed 2.4 million people in 2022."
https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/contribution-of-the-arts-to-society-and-the-economy/#:~:text=The%20government%20estimates%20that%20creative,2.4%20million%20people%20in%202022.
In 1980 I switched from a combined science degree to a humanities degree because I knew I was not going to pass the maths component, but it left me with a legacy that I wanted fewer people in the future to make that decision.
Students can be helped study maths by using good tools for practicing, one example that springs to mind is the Moodle STACK question type, which I will be presenting next Tuesday April 1st for the Moodle Academy, read more here
https://moodle.academy/calendar/view.php?view=day&course=1&time=1743494400#event_26872
End of shameless plug.
What is, and what is not useful both to the individual and society is a very contested issue. For example there is an argument that studying the creative arts such as music and dance is "froth on the top of society"
Yet no society has ever existed without these things, they are far more embedded in who we are than management consultancy, or even maths. In the UK "The government estimates that creative industries generated £126bn in gross value added to the economy and employed 2.4 million people in 2022."
https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/contribution-of-the-arts-to-society-and-the-economy/#:~:text=The%20government%20estimates%20that%20creative,2.4%20million%20people%20in%202022.
In 1980 I switched from a combined science degree to a humanities degree because I knew I was not going to pass the maths component, but it left me with a legacy that I wanted fewer people in the future to make that decision.