Banking Industry

• The banking industry works daily with numbers ---- customers' accounts, debits and credits. Bank tellers must be able to conduct every transaction accurately, depositing the correct amount of money to a customer's account or counting out the correct amount of cash. Loan managers and bank managers also use math every day as they work on loan applications or extend credit to small businesses.
  
  Tellers have to count their bank drawers at the beginning and end of each day to make sure everything balances correctly. (See Ref. 1)
  
  

Sales

• Cashiers are responsible for their cash drawer from the start of their shift until the end. As they work with individual customers, they must ring each sale up correctly, deduct any applicable sales or discounts, accept the required payment and hand back the correct amount of change. Even though modern cash registers figure out how much each customer should receive in change, the cashier should know how much to count out and return to her customer.
  
  

Engineering

• Engineers are taught how to apply math and science to develop new solutions. Every engineering major takes college courses heavy in math, with some earning degrees in engineering and mathematics. Engineering specialties include agricultural, aerospace, biomedical, chemical, computer, computer hardware, civil, electronics, electrical, health and safety, environmental, marine, industrial, mechanical, materials, nuclear, mining and geological and petroleum.
  
  

Computers

• Computer scientists use math extensively as they work with computer technology. Depending on the application they are using, the math they apply might be used for graphics animations, medical applications, cryptography, interior design and interfacing parallel computers.
  
  

Scientists

• Computer scientists pair computer technology with math principles. Research scientists use math to create models of atmospheric conditions as they work to obtain a deeper understanding about emissions coming from power plants, factories, trucks and cars so they can develop alternative fuels.
  
  Biological scientists work with living organisms as they study the organisms' effect on the environment. Math study, along with required coursework in biology and chemistry, helps the biological scientist in research.
  
  

Statistics/Mathematics

• Other jobs or careers requiring math include geophysical mathematician, who works on the math concepts for seismic imaging tools; math teachers, who teach students, not only about math operations, concepts and equations, but about math as a language; math professors, who conduct theoretical math research and teach math classes; environmental mathematician, who works with others in the environmental disciplines, evaluating and studying Superfund site conditions; and statisticians, who collect and analyze numerical data from experiments and surveys.