 What math course is right for you? Math 146, Statistics. My name is Helen Byrne and I am teaching Math 146, which is Introduction to Statistics. You know, this class is taken by more and more students. The general audience is always the healthcare sciences, nursing majors, business students have to take stats, science students have to take stats, and what's happening nationally is more majors are realizing that stats is the better math class. So we're getting, our enrollments are growing, so many, many, many different types of students have to take this class. What degree are you seeking at Highline College? I am seeking a nursing degree. I am pursuing a nursing degree. I'm doing business administration. Why did you take Math 146? I chose to take this one because it was one of the mandatory classes that they asked for. I took Math 146 as a prerequisite for my nursing major. I chose it because it is a requirement for my degree. What advice would you give to students taking Math 146? You know, to get, to know your calculator, know where everything is, try to be hands-on all the time, you know, to, you know, learn the instructions really well. My advice for students would be to go into the class with a positive attitude and don't be afraid to ask questions because the material you learn at the beginning is helpful to stuff you're learning later. If you don't come in with a positive attitude and you get yourself down about, like, what you're learning, like, that'll really affect you because you say, oh, I can't do this while you won't be able to. But if you tell yourself, oh, I can do this, I can go to this class, then that'll be really helpful. I think know your professors, go on rate my professor and look to see which professor you think you like most. Get to know them a little bit from the comments and the feedback. I think that's pretty much the best advice I can give. Well, I think one thing that is really different is statistics is really about the science of data and how to make sense of data. So it's a math class, but it's a little bit different because it's a lot more applied. So you really have to understand what's going on. Some students that have really been good at algebra come into this class and they expect there just to be, like, rules and they can follow the rules and it doesn't work that way. You have to really make sense of the whole thing, but that's also good news because a lot of students who haven't succeeded well in traditional math courses do really well in statistics because it makes sense and it's something really concrete and real. I would also say that if I were a student coming from, like, a second language background, I wouldn't be so worried. There are a lot of words and a lot of vocabulary, but all students can really be successful in this course.