Sage Hill solves the equation

Here are a few words and phrases that were tossed about a Sage Hill

High classroom this month: binomial distributions, sample size,

hypotheses and means.

What could possibly have compelled the students in Noureddine El

Alam’s Advanced Placement class to utter, or even just think, such

words? Statistics. Yes, the most dastardly mathematical word this

side of calculus.

At least for average folk. But there appears to be nothing average

about this class, which is tackling a subject that leaves most

quaking in quotient fear.

The message in it is perfectly clear, one even the most

math-phobic can calculate. In just three short years (an easy number

to count), Sage Hill officials have quickly put together a remarkably

successful school, both in the classroom and on the playing field

(just check the sports section to find that out).

The only question that seems to linger is just how much better the

school can get. Where will it be after six years? After 10?