This course is intended for students who are not ready for or interested in the Pre-calculus/Calculus pathway their senior year but still want to continue developing their mathematical knowledge and ...

Part of the premise of Good Will Hunting is that if you’re smart enough, you should skip formal education and teach yourself with books. And that was before prestigious universities started uploading ...

High school students planning to apply to the University of California now have a broader set of courses they can take to meet the math requirement for admission to the public university system. As ...

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 ...

The Palo Alto Unified School District. Photo by Veronica Weber. After years of debating over how the Palo Alto Unified School District should offer advanced math, Superintendent Don Austin announced ...

Students catch up under a giant oak tree on the first day of school at Palo Alto High School on August 14, 2024. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney. In an effort to provide students more advancement ...

College can be thrilling, demanding, and unpredictable. The need for mathematics is one item that always surprises pupils. Many others share your question about the math courses needed in college.

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 ...

Fremont middle and high schools now allow more opportunities for students to take higher-level math courses, increasing the number of students who will take Advanced Placement math before graduating ...

New research that tracked high school juniors in Los Angeles Unified found that those who took math as seniors — from algebra to advanced calculus — were better positioned to enroll and stay in ...

Choosing high school courses can feel high-stakes—and for good reason. According to a survey from the National Association for College Admission Counseling, nearly 87% of colleges believe curriculum ...