How do the SUMaC courses compare to advanced high school and college-level courses?
The usual mathematics sequence at the advanced high school, and beginning college level, takes students through courses designed for the pursuit of science and engineering, leading to topics that are motivated almost entirely by the subject’s applicability to “real-world” problems. While SUMaC recognizes applicability as an added bonus in most areas of pure mathematics, our topics are selected independently of concern for these applications. SUMaC leaps ahead in the sequence to give a glimpse of advanced material appropriate for those with a genuine interest in mathematics. Topics covered at SUMaC are included in various college math courses at about the junior level, but the topics are not presented in the format of the usual college courses where they would ordinarily be introduced. In order to reasonably give talented high school students a glimpse of such advanced topics, in only four weeks, the material is streamlined, and not developed to the extent it would be in a university co
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