AP Calculus AB

Course Overview
The purpose of this course is to prepare students for success in collegiate mathematics and to prepare students for success on the AP Calculus AB exam. This course involves academic rigor, and students should be prepared to consistently complete quality work at home and in class. AP Calculus students will work in groups and individually. Students will explore each topic graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally. Graphing calculators are used for many topics and problems in the course.

Grading
Grading 15% -- Daily work: This includes most in-class assignments and skills development homework. 85% -- Assessment of Learning Targets: This includes all exams, quizzes, projects and some graded homework and classwork. Chapter exams and unit exams are included in the Assessment of Learning Targets category and will be approximately 70% of students nal grades. There will be no retakes this year because grades are based on all of your work, not simply based on passing exams. Late assignments will be accepted no later than the next class meeting after the due date, and points will be deducted. Ms. J will not remind students about late work or make up work.

Homework
Quality completion of homework is absolutely necessary to pass AP Calculus. Your homework may be difcult. You are expected to work through it and LEARN to do the problems. Come for help any time you get stuck.

Support for learning

Ms. Johnson is available after school Monday through Thursday. Please ask for extra help as needed! Email: amy_johnson@ecsonline.org; website: www.echsmath.weebly.com .

Text
Larson, Hostetler, and Edwards. Calculus of a Single Variable: Eighth Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifin Company, 2006.

Materials
Students will organize their work in a three-ring binder, keeping all assignments, notes and assessments for the entire course.

Units and Learning Targets

Limits and Continuity 1) Understand and apply the concepts of limits 2) Understand and apply the concepts of continuity and related theorems Finding Derivatives 3) Understand and apply the concept of the derivative 4) Compute derivatives and use them to solve problems

5) Use principals of trigonometry to solve calculus problems Rates of Change 6) Use the derivative to solve problems involving rates of change Applications of Differentiation 7) Apply the derivative to describe, locate and apply key features of functions and solve problems 8) Use the MVT to solve problems 9) Solve optimization problems Integrals 10) Find anti-derivatives 11) Use the FTC to solve denite integrals and problems with integration 12) + Use Riemann and trapezoidal sums to estimate integrals Applications of Integration 13) Find the area between two curves 14) Find volumes Differential Equations and Using Other Functions 15) Find derivatives and integrals involving inverse functions, exponential functions, and logarithmic functions. 16) Solve separable differential equations !