中学对合格教师的需求不断增加，对数学和化学老师的重视程度更高，他们关心学生，对化学和数学有广泛而深刻的理解，并且非常专业。责任很大，但回报却更大。Western的化学/数学中学教育课程为学生带来了很多好处，例如与师生的紧密联系和相对较小的班级。该课程的学生可以直接使用现代实验室设备和仪器，并可以在教职顾问的指导下进行研究工作。
The program of study for the chemistry/mathematics majors provides many benefits to students, such as close student-faculty contact and relatively small classes. The students have direct access to modern laboratory equipment and instrumentation, and there are opportunities for research work under the direction of a faculty advisor. <br><br>As a practical matter, Mathematics is a science of pattern and order. Its domain is not molecules or cells, but numbers, chance, form, algorithms, and change. As a science of abstract objects, Mathematics relies on logic rather than on observation as its standard of truth, yet employs observation, simulation, and even experimentation as means of discovering truth.'' From: Everybody Counts: A Report to the Nation on the Future of Mathematics Education (c) 1989 National Academy of Sciences.<br><br>Teaching mathematics and chemistry is a challenge, a responsibility, and an opportunity. Learning to teach mathematics and chemistry occurs through a variety of means: the study of a wide variety of mathematics and chemistry, pedagogical preparation within a mathematical and science context, formal clinical preparation in education, an extended internship, and continual experiences as a student, learner, and problem solver in mathematics and chemistry.