This course provides a study of elementary functions and two semesters of college calculus. Course content corresponds to the syllabus established by the College Board Advanced Placement Program. Students are required to take the AP Calculus Examination in May from which placement and/or credit may be awarded at the college level if a qualifying score is obtained. Students will receive a BC score and an AB sub-score. Topics included in the curriculum are limits and their properties, modeling and regression, differentiation, applications of differentiation including related rates, optimization, and curve sketching, integration, applications of integration including area, volume, work, and force, logarithmic differentiation, differential equations, trigonometric integrals, inverse trig functions differentiation and integration, integration by parts, partial fractions, improper integrals, sequences and series including Taylor polynomials and power series, polar area. Students complete the AB topics in the fall and BC topics in the spring. Students are required to have a graphing calculator.Â
Here is a link to the syllabus: AP Calculus BC Syllabus
Textbook Link: Larson, Ron, Edwards, Bruce H., and Heyd, David E. Calculus, 9th edition (ISBN-13: 978-0547167022)
Weekly Agenda: Link