A.P. Calculus AB (450-AP)
1 Credit
Grade 12
Prerequisites: Minimum 265 RIT on MAP or Teacher recommendation or successful completion of Pre-Calculus H.

This course is based on the College Board Advanced Placement syllabus and standards and is designed to give students the opportunity to earn a transferable college credit in Calculus I. Since the AP Exams are administered in early May, the workload in the first 3 marking periods is significantly greater than that of previous Honors math courses. Students will be expected to work collaboratively outside of class and will have an additional 4 hours per month of class time after school and on Saturdays. Students will learn to compose exemplary responses to released AP Free Response. problems and evaluate them using official College Board AP rubrics. Topics of study include limits, the limit definitions of derivative and integral, differentiation and integration rules and techniques, graphing functions using their first and second derivatives, relate rates, optimization, L’Hospital’s Rule, the Mean Value and Intermediate Value Theorems, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, area estimation techniques, area between curves, volumes of irregular solids with known cross-sections, slope fields, and an introduction to differential equations. Completion of the AP exam is required. Students with an 80 average after four marking terms are exempt from the final exam. Students taking this course will be required to complete a summer assignment.