For decades, high-achieving high school students have been told the surest way to impress selective colleges is to take calculus. In a recent national survey of 133 admissions officers, 74% said the ...

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.

If students aren’t adequately prepared for college-level math courses in high school, it can make completing a college degree more difficult, with some students needing to spend time and money on ...

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. -- An Indiana high school student has become the only person in the world to land a perfect score on an AP calculus exam. Denise White has taught different levels of calculus ...

Kyle Kishimoto, 11, and Ejay Cho, 14, assembled at the Fairmont Preparatory Academy gym on May 8, along with high school juniors and seniors to take the Advanced Placement calculus AB exam. While the ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- More than 300,000 students took the Advanced Placement Calculus AB Exam last year, and a 17-year-old Los Angeles high school student was one of 12 people in the world to earn a ...