Should there be an AP Linear Alegbra Course?

CSMathAsa1994
Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:23:18 +0000

Personally I believe that an AP linear Algebra course should exist. I am a senior high school, but after learning linear algebra from Khan Academy, I believe that linear algebra should be brought to high school. In college, people generally take it after or concurrent with Calc 2. But in order to do well in linear algebra, you just need to be good at precalc/physics (provided your precalc/physics class touched matrices, vectors, or parametric functions) and have decent computation skills. You don’t even need calculus to be good at linear algebra. They are different disciplines with slight overlap.
Also Linear Algebra should be brought to high school level because it is so versatile. That is why college board created AP Stats right? Stats can be used in accounting, engineering, business, economics, and etc. Linear algebra also possesses the same versatility of Stats.