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2009-2010 AP4ALL Courses: AP Calculus AB
AP Calculus AB
Course Information
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Course Title: |
AP Calculus AB
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Course Description: |
The Calculus AB course is primarily concerned with developing the students' understanding of the concepts of calculus and providing experience with its methods and applications. The course emphasizes a multirepresentational approach to calculus, with concepts, results, and problems being expressed graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally.
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Teacher: |
Michael Cowing
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Suggested Student
Preparation: |
Before studying calculus, all students should complete four years of secondary mathematics designed for college-bound students: courses in which they study algebra, geometry, trigonometry, analytic geometry, and elementary functions. These functions include those that are linear, polynomial, rational, exponential, logarithmic, trigonometric, inverse trigonometric, and piecewise defined. In particular, before studying calculus, students must be familiar with the properties of functions, the algebra of functions, and the graphs of functions. Students must also understand the language of functions (domain and range, odd and even, periodic, symmetry, zeros, intercepts, and so on) and know the values of the trigonometric functions of the numbers 0, pi/6, pi/4, pi/3, pi/2, and their multiples.
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Course Dates
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Start date: |
September 1, 2009
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End date: |
one week following the AP Exam for this course
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Delivery Method
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Course Delivery: |
Moodle and other online technologies
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