The (Free) Textbook I Wrote To Support The Most Advanced High School Math/CS Sequence In The USA
It scaffolded high school students up to doing masters/PhD-level coursework: reproducing academic research papers in artificial intelligence, building everything from scratch in Python. A former student worked through it right before conducting research that won 1st place ($250,000) in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, getting personally recruited by the head of NASA (with a fighter jet ride as a signing bonus), and publishing his results, solo-author, in The Astronomical Journal.
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This is the textbook I wrote to support the most advanced high school math/CS sequence in the USA – Math Academy’s (former) Eurisko program, where we scaffolded high school students up to doing masters/PhD-level coursework: reproducing academic research papers in artificial intelligence, building everything from scratch in Python.
It’s freely available. Here’s a link to the PDF (also HTML).
It’s still early and the first Eurisko cohort hasn’t even graduated from college yet, but there have already been some amazing student outcomes in terms of college admissions, accelerated graduate degrees, research publications, and science fairs.
For instance: one student, Matteo Paz, conducted research that won 1st place ($250,000) in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, got personally recruited by the head of NASA (with a fighter jet ride as a signing bonus), and published his results, solo-author, in The Astronomical Journal.
A direct quote from Caltech’s website: “Through his research at Caltech, a local high school student [Matteo] revealed 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space, broadened the potential of a NASA mission, and published a single-author, peer-reviewed paper.”
More info here:
- Math Academy’s Eurisko Sequence, 5 Years Later: Student Outcomes Emerging From the Most Advanced High School Math/CS Track in the USA
- What Happens When Middle School is Put to Good Use
I’m super proud of Matteo and all my Eurisko students for the hard work they put in, and I can’t wait to see where their interests, skills, creativity, and work ethic take them in college and beyond.
And I can’t wait to make more of their background training opportunities widely accessible at scale.
We currently have all of Eurisko’s math prerequisites available on the Math Academy system (which is where Matteo and other Eurisko students learned it).
Eurisko ended in 2023 when I relocated because nobody else in the district had the requisite knowledge to teach it.
But we will eventually have the entire Eurisko curriculum, and more, on the Math Academy system.
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