what can we do?

As America slips behind other countries in math This artical talks about students failing in fath at snow college. LDS Missionarys it says are not doing well in math, students don't have the opporunity to connect math to the real world. A math teacher says nurses need more math to get measuring right. Another math teacher says it helps students think absractly and have order skills. Many schools are now focusing on math concepts rather then rote memorization. Utah has now made it's graduation requirement from 2 years of math to 3 years. This looks so one sided and biest. Math teachers go to college to learn how to be math teachers, can they get any other kind of job? what kind? does it pay well? is it worth it? I want a Math teacher to teach me how to make money I can live on. I want to hear a quotes from the nurses telling me what kind of math they use all the time, what are they? what businessess need math? why? how much are they willing to pay for a math job? what is the other side of this story, the business side? is there any business in math? what else can we use trinomials and algorithm skills for?