AP Calculus

Calculus Honors/AP Calculus is a course designed to meet the College Board Advanced Placement AB standards. Students are expected to take the AP Test for Calculus AB at the end of the year. This is a very challenging mathematics course, being the equivalent of one semester of college calculus. Students entering the class should have performed strongly in Math 3 and Pre-Calculus to be at standard.

The main instructional technique will be large group lecture, with students writing down notes, examples, and working out practice problems throughout the lesson. However, students will also be expected to connect prior knowledge to new topics through discussion, both in large and small groups. Discussing how the topics are related to each other will provide a necessary connection that we can use to fuel further lessons. Use of a graphing calculator will also be necessary to interpret difficult functions and data sets and to test hypotheses about functions and their behavior.

Our class will focus on the big ideas of basic calculus with a focus on problem-solving, exploring problems from multiple angles, and how to use a graphing calculator to assist in visualize and understand a given scenario. By mastering the building blocks of calculus (limits, derivatives, and integrals), students will be able to view the world through the eyes of calculus to appreciate the beauty and application of higher-level mathematics.

All students have access to the Google Classroom Page. This page is updated daily with completed notes and homework assignments. Parents wishing to have access to this page please contact Ms. Williams.

Google Classroom