Thinking about the future is risky business. Past experience tells us that today’s
first graders will graduate high school most likely facing problems that do not
yet exist. Given the uncertain needs of the next generation of high school graduates,how
do we decide what mathematics to teach? Should it be graph theory or
solid geometry? Analytic geometry or fractal geometry? Modeling with algebra or
modeling with spreadsheets?
These are the wrong questions,and designing the new curriculum around answers
to them is a bad idea