Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, high-achieving high school students have been told the surest way to impress selective colleges is to take calculus.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The University of Southern Indiana has received a grant from the Indiana Department of Education to help AP Calculus AB and AP ...

For some high school students, statistics and other data science courses have unseated calculus as the de facto option for pursuing advanced math, in part due to targeted state efforts to expand ...

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 ...

MIDDLETOWN, Md. (AP) — Kundan Chintamaneni’s mother cannot keep up with the star calculus student’s use of sticky notes and scrap paper to solve the latest problem in the array of competitions he is ...

Two years ago, I encountered an accelerated math class at a public school in Pasadena, Calif., that I found hard to believe. Six eighth-graders — four boys and two girls — were taking Advanced ...

Many students today enter William & Mary with substantial advanced placement credit. AP credit for MATH 111 (Calculus I) is awarded when a student achieves a score of 4 or 5 on the AB test, or a score ...

Due to incomplete information provided by Polk County Public Schools, an earlier version of this story was incomplete, leaving out Lake Wales High School and Discovery High School. The data show that ...

After decades of growth, the number of high school girls who take Advanced Placement math exams is now almost the same as the number for boys. In 1997, 83 girls for every 100 boys took an AP math exam ...

The University of Southern Indiana has received a grant from the Indiana Department of Education to help AP Calculus AB and AP Statistics teachers strengthen instruction while supporting student ...