<p>“Passion for learning math leads [16-year old] whiz [Khallid Love] to Princeton” (North Carolina)</p>
<p>[16</a> Year Old Khallid Love Heads to Princeton](<a href=“http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/07/25/2481369.html#ixzz1Vh1OfS9f]16”>http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/07/25/2481369.html#ixzz1Vh1OfS9f)</p>
<p>"Ask Khallid Love to name his favorite subject in school, and he’ll give an answer you won’t hear from many other teenagers.</p>
<p>“Advanced Placement calculus,” he says without hesitation.</p>
<p>Derivatives and integrals, the abstract concepts that drive the average calculus student insane, come easily to his mathematically inclined brain.</p>
<p>So much so that he regularly tutors his 11-year-old brother, Mustapha, and other students around his home in Charlotte’s Hidden Valley neighborhood.</p>
<p>“I just like helping people. I like math, and I like explaining it to them,” he says. “It’s exciting to me.”</p>
<p>That’s not the type of thing most adults would expect to hear from the average teenager. But his mother, Antonette Love, a single parent, kept him focused on learning and out of harm’s way in the troubled neighborhood they call home. Hidden Valley, in northeast Charlotte, has had high-profile struggles with crime, drugs and gangs… . . . " (continued)</p>