Redondo 11-year-old tops College Board AP calculus
by Garth Meyer If he wanted to, Redondo Beach sixth-grader Stephen Huffaker could never spend another minute in a math class, and graduate from high school with credits to spare. It was true last year too at Lincoln Elementary School, when he scored a 5 on the state AP College Board calculus test. “In fourth grade, I really liked trigonometry,” he said. “I thought trigonometric identities were cool.” Such as? “Sine squared of theta and cosine squared of theta always equals one.” Huffaker did it all through “Math Academy,” a program in the Pasadena Unified School District. “I live in Redondo Beach, I’m not moving my entire family to Pasadena for this,” said Stephanie Huffaker, Stephen’s mother, when she first looked into the program. Then they told her they were about to launch an online version. “Sign me the hell up,” she said. Stephen enlisted in the academy at the start of fourth grade, going from pre-algebra to AP Calculus by the end of fifth. “They gave him seven years of math credits,” said Stephanie, a clinical nurse specialist at Harbor UCLA. “Mom, the return on investment is incredible,” Stephen said. During the pandemic, he took various advanced math tests online…
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