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AP Calculus AB |
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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August 27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
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First Day! Course overview, expectations, parent function review |
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Computer lab and online course software orientation |
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Review of properties of functions’ (incl. piecewise) graphs with respect to transformations |
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September 3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
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Calculator review day (using data, graphing, tables, solve operation) |
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Trigonometry, Logarithmic, Exponential, Conic sections review Txt Review/PS |
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10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
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Test 1.1 |
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Introduction/Lab on Limits |
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17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
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Using graphs and tables of
data to determine limits |
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Properties
of limits, algebraic techniques for evaluating limits |
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Test 1.2 |
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24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
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Comparing relative magnitudes of functions and their rates of change |
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Continuity and one-sided limits, geometric understanding of the graphs of continuous functions, Intermediate Value Theorem |
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October 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
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Infinite limits, using limits to find the asymptotes of a function |
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Test 1.3 |
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8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
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Introduction/Lab on Derivatives |
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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 |
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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 |
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15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
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Differentiation
rules for basic functions, including power functions and trigonometric
functions, rules of differentiation for sums & differences |
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Test 1.4 |
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22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
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Rules of differentiation for products and quotients and higher
order derivatives |
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The chain rule |
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Implicit differentiation |