Upper School Curriculum by Grade

AP Calculus AB

This college-level course closely follows the syllabus of the College Board for Advanced Placement AB Calculus and is primarily concerned with developing the student’s understanding of calculus and providing experiences with its methods and applications. The course emphasizes a multi-representational approach to calculus, with concepts, results, and problems being expressed geometrically, numerically, analytically, and verbally.

The major topics covered in the course include functions, graphs, limits, and continuity; derivatives and their application; and integrals and their application. The TI-Nspire graphing calculator is used extensively throughout the course to analyze and graph functions, their derivatives, and their integrals, as well as to compute numerical values for a range of functions and their approximations. Student work is evaluated primarily through tests, which are designed to prepare students for the Advanced Placement Examination in May. Homework, which is extensive and regularly assigned, is thoroughly discussed during class, as are strategies for problem solving and modeling data.
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