AP Calculus
2024-2025
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Links:
AP Test Review Sites:
FRQ Answers to released questions (Mr. Calculus site)
AP Calculus Practice Questions
AP Review Videos from College Board - You Tube page
Class Summaries:
| Date | Description | Flipped Assignment |
| Wed/Thur, Aug 28/Aug 29 |
Back-2-School Days: Go over syllabus... Hand out Packet - bring done on Tuesday |
End-of-Summer Packet - practice to get your brain back into "math mode" (Key linked on Canvas) |
| Tues, Sept 3rd |
First Day of Classes - Questions on Packet?? - Sign up for College Board and AP Classroom - Circuit - Using Tables (with table) - NO CALCULATORS!! |
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| Wed, Sept 4th | -Activity: Preview of Calculus - Do you know your calculator? (Circuit) | |
| Thur, Sept 5th |
-20 minutes - finish circuit from yesterday -Look at AP Classroom - What can be found there? -Start Activity: Always true or not? |
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| Fri, Sept 6th | - Review Activity: Meet the Parents (with table) - NO CALCULATORS!! |
Watch 1.1 Video and take notes (1) Do 1.1 Practice Problems (2-3) Watch 1.2 Video and take notes (5) Do 1.2 Practice Problems (6-7) |
| Mon, Sept 9th |
1.1 Introducing Calculus: Can Change Occur at an Instant? 1.2 Defining Limits and Using Limit Notation Questions off of assignment? Take 1.1-1.2 Quiz on AP Classroom |
Watch 1.3 Video and take notes (9) Do 1.3 Practice Problems (10-11) There are two video sections Wed night before class Thurs. You may want to start 1.4 tonight. |
| Wed, Sept 11th |
1.3 Finding Limits from Graphs Questions off of assignment? Activity: Associating Limits with Graphical Behavior |
Watch 1.4 Video and take notes (13) Do 1.4 Practice Problems (14-15) Watch 1.5 Video and take notes (17) Do 1.5 Practice Problems (18-20) |
| Thur, Sept 12th |
1.4 Finding Limits from Tables 1.5 Algebraic Properties of Limits and Piecewise Functions Warm-up for Advanced Limits (front); Advanced Limits Activity (back) due on Monday |
Watch 1.6 Video and take notes Do 1.6 Practice Problems Watch 1.7 Video and take notes Do 1.7 Practice Problems |
| Mon, Sept 16th |
Simplify Complex Fractions Warm-up (K) 1.6 Algebraic Manipulations of Limits - Sub/Factor/Trig 1.7 Selecting Procedures (Limits) - Rationalize/Complex Fractions 1.6 Circuits (two ten square circuits) |
Mid-Unit Review - Limits (in book 33-34) skip #19 (Squeeze Theorem) |
| Wed, Sept 18th |
1.1-1.6 Limits Quiz (BP) *there will be an opportunity for students to retake questions 6 and 7 on the quiz. It must be done before the end of next week. (Sept 27th) |
Watch 1.8 Video and take notes Do 1.8 Practice Problems Watch 1.9 Video and take notes Do 1.9 Practice Problems |
| Thurs, Sept 19th |
MAPS Testing (Seniors do not have to take) 1.8 The Squeeze Theorem 1.9 Multiple Representations (Limits) - just more practice of limits, if there are any you don't understand, ask on Monday Unit 1 MCQ's have been assigned. Due 11:59 pm on Oct 6th. They will close at that time and will not be reopened. Do not wait too long to start. |
Can start Unit 1 MCQ's on AP Classroom. Watch 1.10 Video and take notes Do 1.10 Practice Problems Watch 1.11 Video and take notes Do 1.11 Practice Problems |
| Mon, Sept 23rd |
Go over 1.1-1.6 Quiz 1.10 Warm-up Questions to review 1.10 (BP) 1.10 Types of Discontinuities 1.11 Defining Continuity at a Point Start 1.11-1.13 Skill Builder Packet (5 pages) - due Monday, Sept 30th. Work on complete answers. (TR) |
Watch 1.12 Video and take notes Do 1.12 Practice Problems |
| Wed, Sept 25th |
1.12 Confirming Continuity Over an Interval Keep working on Skill Builder Packet |
Watch 1.13 Video and take notes Do 1.13 Practice Problems Watch 1.14 Video and take notes Do 1.14 Practice Problems |
| Thur, Sept 26th |
1.13 Removing Discontinuities 1.14 Infinite Limits and Vertical Asymptotes (discuss #/0 -> +/-oo) 1.14 Quiz on AP Classroom |
Watch 1.15 Video and take notes Do 1.15 Practice Problems Watch 1.16 Video and take notes Do 1.16 Practice Problems |
| Mon, Sept 30th 1-7 schedule |
Homecoming Week 1.15 Limits at Infinity and Horizontal Asymptotes Sketch the Graph Activity (from MM Rev) |
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| Tues, Oct 1st 1-7 schedule |
Homecoming Week 1.16 Intermediate Value Theorem (IVT) Discuss "conditions" vs. "conclusions" Come up with a script or dialogue that is appropriate to be used for IVT explanation. Will need to use all year. This is one of the main theorems used on the AP Test. |
End of Unit Review - Limits and Continuity (63-64 in book) |
| Thurs, Oct 3rd Red Schedule |
Homecoming Week Unit 1 FRQ Test (in-class) TR Unit 1 MCQ's have been assigned in AP Classroom. They will be open until 11:59 pm Oct 6th and will not be reopened. |
Watch 2.1 Video and take notes Do 2.1 Practice Problems |
| Fri, Oct 4th 1-7 schedule |
Homecoming Week 2.1 Defining Average and Instantaneous Rate of Change at a Point |
Watch 2.2 Video and take notes Do 2.2 Practice Problems |
| Mon, Oct 7th |
2.2 Defining the Derivative of a Function and Using Derivative Notation 2.1-2.2 Review (MM) |
Watch 2.3 Video and take notes Do 2.3 Practice Problems |
| Wed, Oct 9th |
Warm-up: Tangent Line (BP) on boards 2.3 Estimating Derivatives of a Function at a Point 2.1-2.3 Skill Builder (TR)?? |
Watch 2.4 Video and take notes Do 2.4 Practice Problems |
| Thur, Oct 10th |
2.4 Connecting Differentiability and Continuity: Determining When
Derivatives Do and Do Not Exist Activity: Twinning (TR) |
Watch 2.5 Video and take notes Do 2.5 Practice Problems |
| Fri, Oct 11th and Mon, Oct 14th | No School | Unit 2 MCQ's have been assigned in AP Classroom. They will be open until 11:59 pm Oct 29th and will not be reopened. |
| Wed, Oct 16th |
2.5 Applying the Power Rule Power Rule Circuit (TR?) |
Watch 2.6 Video and take notes Do 2.6 Practice Problems Watch 2.7 Video and take notes Do 2.7 Practice Problems |
| Thur, Oct 17th |
2.6 Derivative Rules: Constant, Sum, Difference, and Constant Multiple Quiz over 2.5 - 2.6 (20 mins) TR 2.7 Derivatives of cos x, sin x, e^x, and ln x |
Watch 2.8 Video and take notes Do 2.8 Practice Problems Watch 2.9 Video and take notes Do 2.9 Practice Problems |
| Mon, Oct 21st |
2.8 The Product Rule 2.9 The Quotient Rule Act: Categorizing Functions for Derivative Rules (AP) |
Watch 2.10 Video and take notes Do 2.10 Practice Problems |
| Wed, Oct 23rd |
Quiz over 2.8 - 2.9 (20 mins) TR 2.10 Derivatives of tan x, cot x, sec x, and csc x |
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| Thur, Oct 24th | Unit 2 Review from book (111-113) | |
| Mon, Oct 28th |
Unit 2 FRQ Test (in-class) TR Unit 2 MCQ's have been assigned in AP Classroom. They will be open until 11:59 pm Oct 29th and will not be reopened. |