AP Calculus BC

Entire Course Notes PDF for you to take to college...

You may find that you want to look something up and revisit topics you've learned in this class. To make this easier for you, I've compiled all of the color lesson notes, plus the worked examples, into a single PDF file with a table of contents for you to take to college:

small_pdf_icon.gif  AP Calculus BC Entire Course Notes

Week 4 Schedule: August 10 - August 16...

Date  Daily lesson materials  Homework


M
8/10
  2.4: The Chain Rule
small_pdf_icon.gif  Unit 2 Notes (blank)
small_pdf_icon.gif  Unit 2 Notes (filled-in)
small_pdf_icon.gif  2.4 Lesson video: The Chain Rule
Tonight is curriculum night - parents can meet your teachers :)
Bell schedule for curriculum night...
5:45 PM: Senior presentation and Rio Salado presentation
6:30-6:42 PM: Period 1
6:47-6:57 PM: Period 2
7:02-7:12 PM: Period 3
7:17-7:27 PM: Period 4/5
7:32-7:42 PM: Period 6
7:47-7:57 PM: Period 7
8:02-8:12 PM: Period 0/8		  2.4 in Unit 2 Required Practice Packet...
small_pdf_icon.gif  Unit 2 Required Practice Packet (a paper copy of this one will be provided in class)
small_pdf_icon.gif  Unit 2 Required Practice Packet - ANSWERS
small_pdf_icon.gif  Unit 2 Extra Practice Packet
small_pdf_icon.gif  Unit 2 Extra Practice Packet - FULL SOLUTIONS
 
T
8/11

  2.5: Implicit and Logarithmic Differentiation
small_pdf_icon.gif  2.5 Lesson video: Implicit and Logarithmic Differentiation 		  2.5 in Unit 2 Required Practice Packet.
 
W
8/12

  2.6: Trig, Inverse Function, and Higher-Order Derivatives
small_pdf_icon.gif  2.6 Lesson video: Higher-order derivatives and Derivatives of inverse functions and the inverse trig functions 		  2.6 in Unit 2 Required Practice Packet AND Work problems from the Unit 2 Test Review (test is Friday).
 
Th
8/13

  Unit 2 Review   Review for Unit 2 test next week Monday (no calculators)
 
F
8/14

  Unit 2 Review   Review for Unit 2 test next week Monday (no calculators)
 

AP Calculus BC announcements...

Time to register for Rio Salado
If you are planning to enroll to earn college credit from Rio Salado for this course, now is the time to enroll in both semester courses with Rio Salado.

This document discusses how college credit works for this course, compares Rio Salado credit to the AP Exam credit, and includes my thoughts on how to decide about college credit, along with answers to common questions. It also provides the course specific codes needed for registration for my classes specifically:
 Taking AP Calculus BC for college credit

If you decide to enroll for college credit through Rio Salado, you can enroll now. Rio Salado will be on our campus August 20 and August 21 to help students finish enrolling if they are having difficulties, so you should try to complete the process before August 20 (especially if you'll need to take Rio's EdReady math placement test...more info is in the above document).

My process for writing recommendation letters
If you are planning to ask me for a letter of recommendation, and I've had you as a student for at least one month, I am happy to write a recommendation letter for you! However, the process typically takes 2-3 weeks, so please read through this document about what information I require from you before we can begin, and plan to provide this information to me at least 3 weeks prior to your deadline:
 My process for writing recommendation letters



General Course Information and Documents...

High-School Course Syllabus:
 AP Calculus BC HS Course Syllabus
 AP Calculus BC Detailed Course Topics Description

If you take this course for Rio Salado credit, you are also subject to the Rio Salado syllabus rules (these are still being developed for this year):
 Rio Salado Course Syllabus - MAT221
 Rio Salado Course Syllabus - MAT231

Here is the course introduction presentation we say in class the first week:
 Welcome to AP Calculus BC!

Taking AP Calculus BC for college credit

You can optionally choose to take AP Calculus BC for college credit. If you want college credit, there are two ways to get it:

1) by taking the AP Calculus BC Exam in May

2) by enrolling in two 1-semester, 4-credit Rio Salado courses:
     Fall: MAT221 Calculus w/Analytic Geometry I
     Spring: MAT231 Calculus w/Analytic Geometry II

(You can take the AP exam *and* enroll in the Rio Salado classes, choose only one of these options, or do neither and just take the course for high school math credit.)

  • AP Calculus BC Exam registration is done in late September/October and is done through your College Board account. All students are required to 'join' our class in their College Board account using a join code - we use the online College Board AP Classroom for some mandatory assignments and reviews. I will give the join codes and more about this soon in class. Then later, in September, students who wish to take the AP Calculus BC Exam can sign up for the exam through their College Board account (I will provide more details in class when we are closer to registration time).

  • Rio Salado registration occurs now, so if you want to take the course for Rio Salado Dual-Enrollment credit, you should start the process soon.


MORE DETAILS / IF YOU NEED HELP DECIDING WHAT TO DO...



Materials

Unit 1: Limits and Continuity



Unit 2: Derivative-Evaluation...



Unit 3: Derivative-Applications...



Unit 4: Integration-Evaluation...



Unit 5: Integral-Applications...



Unit 6: Differential Equations...



Semester 1 Final Exam...



Unit 7: Infinite Series, Taylor/Maclaurin Polynomials and Series, Power Series...



Unit 8: Conics, Parametric Equations, Polar Coordinates, and Vectors...



AP Review...
After Unit 8, our course reviews all course material in preparation for the AP Calculus BC Exam. All materials for our entire course review in preparation for the AP Calculus BC Exam are not available on this website due to copyright reasons. We will explain how to access materials to currently registered students in my class during class.



Unit Calendars

(Note: all information in the future is tentative and may change.)