Author Archives: Katherine Culajay

When it comes to data, there are many types of graphs that shows different data and statistics. However, each graph has a different way of showing the data; that’s why when we make a graph it is very important to analyze which one would fit better for our data. For example, this is graph is showing data about the percentage of obesity in males and females from different countries. We can notice that the females from USA (black) has the highest percentage of obesity with approximately 37%. Also, we see that when it comes to men, USA (Mexican) and Czech republic has the higher percentage with approximately 23%. Why did the organization who made the study decided to use a bar graph instead of a pie chart or line graph? Well, as we can notice, the study is for males and women, meaning that there will be two different types of results. So, a pie chart cannot be made if there will be two or more classifications for a result, whereas a bar graph would make this data look more organized, easy to read and professional.

I am currently persuading a career in Human Services. However my plan is to have a social worker or child therapist degree. People might think that just because this career has to do with people’s emotions or problems math is something that is not required. But I can say that math reasoning is very important when you are persuading a  career like human services. Reasoning is used when clients do surveys in surveys in order to see their feelings or concerns. In addition, reasoning and probability is used when the social worker detect what is happening to the client even if he or she do not want to tell the social worker. As we can see, math is used every day at every moment, that is why it is important to learn and do what we can on this class.