AP Calculus AB
1st 9-week Calendar

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

August 27

28

29

30

31

First Day!

Course overview, expectations, parent function review

Txt P.1

 

Computer lab and online course software orientation

Txt P.2

 

Review of properties of functions’ (incl. piecewise) graphs with respect to transformations

Txt P.3

September 3

4

5

6

7

 

 

Calculator review day (using data, graphing, tables, solve operation)

Txt P.4

 

Trigonometry, Logarithmic, Exponential, Conic sections  review

Txt Review/PS

10

11

12

13

14

 

Test 1.1

 

Introduction/Lab on Limits

Txt 1.1

 

17

18

19

20

21

Using graphs and tables of data to determine limits

Txt 1.2

 

Properties of limits, algebraic techniques for evaluating limits

Txt 1.3

 

Test 1.2

24

25

26

27

28

 

Comparing relative magnitudes of functions and their rates of change

 

Continuity and one-sided limits, geometric understanding of the graphs of continuous functions, Intermediate Value Theorem

Txt 1.4

 

 October 1

2

3

4

5

 

Infinite limits, using limits to find the asymptotes of a function

Txt 1.5

 

Test 1.3

 


 

8

9

10

11

12

Introduction/Lab on Derivatives

Txt 2.1

 

Understanding of the derivative: (G,N,A), approx. rates of change from graphs and tables of data, various views of derivative, meaning of the derivative: translating verbal descriptions into equations and vice versa

Txt 2.1

 

The relationship between differentiability and continuity, functions that have a vertical tangent at a point, functions that have a point on which there is no tangent

Txt 2.1

15

16

17

18

19

 

Differentiation rules for basic functions, including power functions and trigonometric functions,  

rules of differentiation for sums & differences

Txt 2.2

 

Test 1.4

 

22

23

24

25

26

Rules of differentiation for products and quotients and higher order derivatives

Txt 2.3

 

The chain rule

Txt 2.4

 

Implicit differentiation

Txt 2.5