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A study examined the views of principals, teachers, parents, and students pertaining to the role of vocational agriculture in developing and enhancing certain mathematical skills. During the study, researchers interviewed 36 secondary vocational agricultural teachers, 35 math-teathers,'35 principals, 137 students, and 260 parents of students enrolled in 36 high school vocational agricultural programs throughout Iowa. All thirteen of the math concepts examined in the study were consistently regarded as being of greatir-than- average importance to students'studying in vocational agricultural programs. The math and vocational teachers ' responses provided significantly highe'r mean scores than did the students ' and pa):ents ' responses. Based on the responses of the study participants,,recommendations were made calling for-the following actions: inclusion of all 13 math concepts as part of the instructional program for vocational agriculture, with special emphasis o