A Grade 12 student in Surrey has made history. This year, he was one of more than 267,000 students to take an internationally renowned calculus exam.

Omar Salman, 16, a Grade 12 student at Cawthra Park Secondary School in Mississauga, now must find a way to complete his calculus and physics courses because the courses are full.

Common Core math upends accelerated curriculum for ... to as the "gatekeeper course," eighth-grade algebra is the first in a series of courses which may lead to the study of calculus in Grade 12.

"The push to calculus in grade twelve is itself misguided," says the framework. ... The K-12 system should concern itself with making every kid fall in love with math.

As leaders of science and engineering departments at a public university, we have front row seats to the outcomes of America’s approach to kindergarten-12th grade (K-12) math education.

Omar Salman wants to be an architectural engineer — but the Grade 12 student needs physics and calculus for university and can’t get into either course at his Mississauga high school.