If the College Board were to create a new Advanced Placement math course, which subject would get your vote? Applied mathematics? College algebra? Differential equations? Something else?
This is more than a rhetorical question, as I recently discovered that, in fact, College Board officials are in the very early stages of contemplating a new mathematics offering. In addition, an AP accounting course and exam may eventually be developed as well.
I learned all this at the tail end of a conversation with Auditi Chakravarty, the vice president for AP curriculum, instruction, and assessment at the College Board. We were discussing still another AP topic that may be forthcoming, AP engineering, which I blogged about the other day. The College Board, along with engineering education advocates, for some time have been exploring this idea. It got me curious as to whether anything else is under consideration.
