341 Advanced Placement Calculus AB H

Gr 12 | |6 Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle

*Prerequisite: WHS Pre-Calculus Honors

This is a demanding college-level calculus course. Many colleges grant one semester’s advanced placement credit to students who successfully complete the course and who score sufficiently high on the AB Advanced Placement Examination. This course covers all topics in the AB syllabus and fully integrates the content of previous math courses. It builds on the foundations of those courses, and students taking Advanced Placement Calculus will be expected to have fully mastered that content. Graphing calculators will be used. Students enrolling in Advanced Placement Calculus AB must have successfully completed WHS’ Pre-Calculus course at the honors level and should have a clearly demonstrated, high level of interest, motivation and achievement in all previous math courses. The ability to work independently and to learn math by reading and experimenting on one’s own are expected of students in this course.  Students who have completed Calculus Honors are not eligible for this course.

Essential Skills:

• Determine expressions and values using mathematical procedures and rules.

• Translate mathematical information from a single representation or across multiple representations.

• Justify reasoning and solutions.

• Use correct notation, language, and mathematical conventions to communicate results or solutions