![]() ![]() Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University Left: Boston Latin Academy teacher Phuong Cao talks to students about a math problem during his Bridge to Calculus class. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University Boston Latin Academy teacher Phuong Cao talks to students about a math problem during his Bridge to Calculus class. Bridge to calculus students work in Dodge Hall. Rajini Jesudason, Bridge to Calculus program director, says that you might expect high school students to balk at the prospect of a summer math class, let alone a voluntary one so early in the morning, but that hasn’t been the case. The Bridge to Calculus program runs three hours a day, Monday through Friday, for six weeks each summer. The solution? Ask them to come in at 7:30 a.m. The goal from the beginning has been “to mirror the high school student population in the Boston public schools,” says professor Egon Schulte, chair of the Northeastern Mathematics Department.īut there was a problem: Many of the students interested in the course also needed to hold down jobs to support both themselves and their families. ![]() Inspired by the work of civil rights activist Bob Moses, Case proposed a Bridge to Calculus, a summer program that would offer students, who might not have access to AP math curricula, a free summer program at Northeastern. So Case decided to do something about it. In 1994, Northeastern mathematics professor Robert Case noticed something: high schools in the Boston suburbs had Advanced Placement calculus programs, while inner-city schools did not. ![]()
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