Wednesday, October 01, 2008

AP Calculus: AP Problems During Lecture

Dear students,
Every time I post and discuss an AP or AP-like exam problem on the board it is extremely important that you write it down, take notes on how to interpret its language and analyze the question, organize the data, present the steps leading to its solution and explain your reasoning including units of measure when applicable.
Allocate a special section on your tool kit for these problems and add a label specifying what main concepts are related to the problem.

For example, today one of the problems we discussed was: 2006 AB, Form B, Free Response #6 part D. This problem is related to The Intermediate Value Theorem.

This Friday and next week we will use limits, continuity, tangent lines and rates of change to begin differentiating functions. Differential Calculus is the first half of this course. The second half is Integral Calculus.

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