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Arthur Benjamin,a professor of math at Harvey Mudd College, talks in TED, he offers a bold proposal on how to make math education relevant in the digital age.
According to him Mathematics has a foundation of Arithmetic, Algebra building up to the top of pyramid, which is calculus. According to him, this is a wrong summit of the pyramid.
The right summit should be probability & statistics.
Laws of nature are written in the language of calculus, and its a great product of the human mind. Very few people use calculus in a conscious meaningful way in their day to day life.
Statistics can be used on a day to day life - its risk, reward, randomness its understanding. Its fun. Statistics and Probability is the mathematics of game, gambling, its analyzing trends, predicting the future.
World has changed from Analog to Digital and math curriculum must change from Analog to digital too. From classical continuous mathematics to modern discreet mathematics. Mathematics of uncertainity, randomness of data.
Check out his short presentation at TED link
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