TEACHING STATISTICS IN A CASINO MANAGEMENT CLASS

The race to the bottom of the education scale for math and science has slowly infected many colleges and universities and hence hospitality programs. The overall perception is that students learn less in high school than they used to and therefore we must lower our expectations of their achievement...

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Published in:ASBBS e-journal 2015-07, Vol.11 (1), p.128
Main Authors: Flanegin, Frank, Rudd, Denis
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Casinos
College football
Colleges & universities
Food
Legalized gambling
Mathematics education
Mathematics teachers
Population
Probability
Science education
Secondary schools
Statistics
Students
Studies
Teaching
Teaching methods
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Summary:The race to the bottom of the education scale for math and science has slowly infected many colleges and universities and hence hospitality programs. The overall perception is that students learn less in high school than they used to and therefore we must lower our expectations of their achievement in college. This guarantees the downward slide will continue. The overall lack of math skills should be of particular importance to hospitality programs in which math skills have already taken a back seat to areas such as food production, convention planning or front desk operations. However, at the base of all of these classes is math: the math of food proportions, the math of large conventions, or the math of room occupancy. The paper analyzes casino classes and concludes nowhere is the need to understand math and statistics more important than in casino management.
ISSN:1557-5004