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Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.

Jaime Escalante fights a losing battle against systemic neglect to prove his students are more than their zip code. He swaps traditional textbooks for real-world grit to turn a classroom of gang members into calculus prodigies.

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