Calculus AB AP

CALCULUS AB AP:  This course focuses on a variety of rules and strategies for finding limits, derivatives, and integrals.  Applications of these concepts include optimization, related rates, area, volume, and separable differential equations.  Emphasis is placed on using differentiation and integration in different contexts with problems presented graphically and numerically as well as algebraically.  This course prepares students to take the College Board’s Advanced Placement Calculus AB exam.  A TI-83 or TI-84 graphing calculator is required for all students.

Full Year                                 

Prerequisite: Pre-Calculus                                            

Grade Level 12

A Core 40 or Academic Honors Elective