In his visit to the Adair County High School last week Kentucky Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo emphasized education and the need to better teach math and science to younger students.
 

“Certainly in computer engineering it’s all very high tech and you need to have a good basis in science and math. Just about any field you go into, even auto mechanics, is very high tech today using computers,” Mongiardo said.

Mongiardo said the problem is that math and science seems too difficult and is taught in a way that does not reveal its value to everyday living. However, he said math and science can, and must be, learned and he said we could make great leaps in the two subjects if we find a way to present them in fun and interesting ways.

“I think that’s important to all of us, because quite frankly, a lot of science and math is very dry and it’s hard to understand how it translates into everyday life,” Mongiardo said. “Now I now what physics really means; now I know what chemistry and bio chemistry really means, but when I was reading it, even as a college student, it was really dry and difficult.”
Mongiardo said infusing math and science classrooms with creativity and revealing how you can manipulate and explain objects makes a big difference with the younger generation.

“I think it makes them more creative and it gives them the ability to expand their problem solving and imagination,” Mongiardo said. “What we need is not somebody who simply reads from the book because when you are searching for solutions all too often that means it’s not in the book. We have to have creative thinking in order to solve problems and that type of creative thinking is what Camp Invention is fostering, and that will be important to our future leaders.”

Mongiardo said the jobs of the future will be based heavily on math and science, particularly in engineering and technology based business. Even service jobs, medicine, and information technology is increasingly based on math and science concepts.