Beyond Expectation
Beyond Expectation Beyond Expectation Introduction Jaime Escalante was proud of his math students at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles in 1982. All 18 of his seniors had taken the tough Advanced Placement (AP) calculus exam. Now they were just waiting for the results. For the past three years, he had challenged his students to work toward this goal. They hadn't let him down. Calculus was the hardest math a high school student could study. Students who pass AP calculus tests join a k
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Beyond Expectation
Beyond Expectation
Introduction
Jaime Escalante was proud of his math students at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles in 1982.All 18 of his seniors had taken the tough Advanced Placement (AP) calculus exam.Now they were just waiting for the results.
For the past three years, he had challenged his students to work toward this goal.They hadn't let him down. Calculus was the hardest math a high school student could study.
Students who pass AP calculus tests join a kind of college aristocracy.They are near the top of the list for admission to a good college.
Escalante's students had always been told that kids like them don't do well at school.Kids like them don't go to college. Kids like them don't get good jobs.
Jaime Escalante told them, and then taught them, that they could.
Jaime Escalante's formula for teaching math proved to students that they could succeed if they worked hard.
