WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information. Sign up for our newsletters to stay up to date on the stories that matter. Cedrick Argueta, right, with his AP Calculus teacher, Anthony Yom, left. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...