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November 5, 2004
Tony Griffith, Mathematics Instructor, Westminster School
I agree with the premise, but here is the problem: I teach high school math at a prep school-- our kids go to the top private colleges in the US - NESCAC schools, Ivy's, and others. Does the admissions office at Amherst prefer a kid who can discuss Simpson's Paradox or simplify a rational function? Does the SAT 2 reward a kid who can understand Arrow's Impossibility Theorem or factor a cubic function? I teach a course called Discrete Math. It is a great class! We use Tannenbaum's book. But--it is for our weakest seniors. Again, Williams and Bowdoin want conic sections, not Euler circuits.