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Arthur Benjamin is a highly respected math prof at Harvey Mudd College who has written several books, one of which, Mathemagics, was my S's favorite in grade school. He has thought and written a lot about the math curriculum.
I tried to make the same argument to my HS about the value of statistics, and asking the school to consider introducing AP-Stats for those who were not going into math or math-heavy fields. But the principal thought that AP-Calc looked more impressive to college admissions committees, even though up to 2/3 of the students at those colleges will not need calc, but would benefit from greater familiarity with statistics and probability.
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