For anyone who doesn't use advanced math on a daily basis, it can almost look like a foreign language.
But then there are students like Sydney Hagel of Brooklyn Park who excel. She's an eighth-grader at Jackson Middle School studying 11th-grade-level math.
It's a passion she developed after her parents raised her to problem-solve without their help.
"I feel like it's really, so validating," said Hagel. "Because I can be like, 'I found this problem and I fixed it.' I really like feeling like I did something."
That problem-solving… Read More