By Alison Morrow, KING 5 NEWS
Of the 2,100 students who attend Kentridge Senior High School, only about a dozen make it into the Calculus AB classroom.
Tracy Tran
“This is the cream of the crop we have here,” explained Mark Champoux. “Not only do you have to be hardworking but you also have to be extremely intelligent.”
Champoux calls all of his students “intelligent”, so he wasn’t surprised that one of them Tracy Tran, 18, recently scored a 5 on the AP Calculus AB exam.
As a child, Tran’s parents had to force her to stop reading and go to bed. She calls books an escape. Math, however, brought her back to reality.
“We can solve so many problems with it. So now it’s become like a passion,” Tran said. “By turning it into a graph and revolving it around an axis and taking integral. It’s just crazy stuff.”
Though humble, even Tran knew she’d do well on the test.
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