A North Atlanta High School student is one of just six students in the world to earn a perfect score on a 2017 Advanced Placement calculus exam. The College Board, which administers AP tests, ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the percent of students Truman Bennet falls in. He is among 0.006% of students to achieve a perfect score on the exam this year ...

MISHAWAKA, Ind. — An Indiana high school student accomplished a feat no one else in the world could do this spring. Felix Zhang, a junior at Penn High School in Mishawaka, was the only student in the ...

For decades, high school students hoping to attend the most selective colleges in the country have received the same recommendation: Take the most rigorous courses possible. And over that time, ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Truman Bennet has always been good at math. His parents, he said, placed an emphasis on math when he was young. And now, as an 18-year-old Marion High School senior, his math skills ...

Sean Cavanagh’s most recent blog entry, “Rush to Calculus?,” about a math professor at Rutgers University who questions the push for students to take calculus in high school struck a chord with me.

When the College Board launched its Advanced Placement Precalculus course in 2022, it aimed to expand students’ access to advanced math courses and open more doors for students to earn college credit ...

MISHAWAKA, Ind. (WSBT) — There’s smart and then there is perfection. Penn High School can say one of its students is perfect, as the only one in the world to receive a perfect score on the AP Calculus ...

REVERE — In high school, Robert Stoica stayed after class for calculus help. Now a freshman at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston, Stoica, 18, said classmates turn to ...

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