Ready to unlock your full math potential? 🎓Subscribe for clear, fun, and easy-to-follow lessons that will boost your skills, build your confidence, and help you master math like a genius—one ...

So while some students may take AP Precalculus their junior year as a precursor to AP calculus, others can take the new course their senior year more generally as a precursor to college-level math.

Taking calculus in high school may give you an admissions edge, but there are other paths to advanced math.

Texas students who took AP courses in statistics or calculus were more likely to attain a bachelor’s degree and earn higher salaries than their peers who did not.

Six eighth-graders — four boys and two girls — were taking Advanced Placement Calculus BC, a course so difficult fewer than 5 percent of high school seniors ever try it.

A 17-year-old Arcadia High School student earned a perfect score on the Advanced Placement Calculus BC exam in May, making him one of only 11 in the world this year to perform such a feat.

Cedrick Argueta, left, a senior at Lincoln High School in Lincoln Heights, and his math instructor, Anthony Yom, show off one of the AP Calculus T-shirts that students wore to their exam last spring.